Rhona Klein, Project Manager

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• Rhona Klein, Project Manager
• Chris Wolfe
• Betty Marcoux

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Mission Statement

• to improve students' ability to effectively
  locate, evaluate, and use information to become
  independent life-long learners. The Initiative
  encourages collaborative efforts among libraries,
  learners, and schools through information
  literacy activities, opportunities, and
  demonstration projects

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Committee Meeting 1
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Committee Meeting 2
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the Committee Perseveres
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Project Goals

• Fund collaborative projects
• Increase staffs awareness of students'
  information literacy behaviors
• Improve staffs understanding of educational
  issues

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Needs Assessment

• Online Surveys Summer 2004
• Public Librarians 213 respondents
• K12 Office of the Superintendent of Public
  Instruction (OSPI) 656 respondents
• Literature Review
• Fitzgibbons, 2000
• Best Practices
• Multnomah County Library (Portland,OR)

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Types of Collaborations

• Most Common Collaboration
• Library orientation
• Reading Promotion
• Storytelling
• Least Common Collaboration
• Writing programs
• Science Fair
• Cooperative purchases
• Professional development

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Interesting Public Library Findings

• 48 reported they communicate with local schools
  once every few months
• 66 reported local schools did not provide
  homework alerts
• Collaboration Concerns
• Greatest concerns staff, time, collections
• Also of concern common vision, conflicting
  management styles

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Learning Needs

• Communication
• Shared vision and goals
• Awareness of differences/similarities
• Digital resources
• Identification of stakeholders
• OBE - Outcomes based evaluation

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Outcomes Based Evaluation (OBE)

• WHAT is OBE?
• What difference did it make?
• WHY do it?
• For CLL THE STUDENTS!
• HOW to do it?
• Pre-Post Design
• Planning Evaluation
• OBE resources in your handout

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OBE Logic Model

• Outcome
• Indicators
• Applied to
• Data Source
• Data Interval
• Goal

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The 3 CLL Interventions

• Online workshop
• OBE training
• Mini-grants

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Grant Projects48 in 2005 42 in 2006

• Information Literacy
• Database/catalog training
• Collection Development
• Communication for improved collaboration/teacher-t
  raining
• Reading programs
• Homework Help

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What Happened?
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Accomplishments
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• Research Expedition!
• Griffin School Library/William G. Reed Library
• Olympia, WA
• 40 2nd Grade Students Producing a Year-Long
  Research Project.
• 40 5th Grade Research buddies.
• 4 Classroom Teachers
• 20 Parent Chaperones
• 10 Public Library Staff
• 1 Youth Services Librarian
• 1 Teacher/Librarian

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• Best Practices,
• Lessons Learned and
• Recommendations

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Levels of Collaboration
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Interesting Findings

• School and public library definitions of what is
  collaboration differ
• Levels of need for collaboration perceived
  differently by agency

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Best Practices

• Resource access
• Library library resource use
• Skills related to information literacy behaviors
• Continuing education
• Networking, outreach partnerships between
  public school libraries
• Understanding use of state standards

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Lessons Learned

• Focus on what you wish to do.
• Determine what you can do
• and dont worry about the rest (Seamless)
• Sustainability
• TIME!
• Legal logistical concerns
• Garbage in garbage out
• gold in gold out!
• Communicate, communicate, communicate!

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Tell Your Story

• Prepare 1 minute elevator speech
• Take photos of people in action!
• Send out press releases let the world know what
  is up!

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Recommendations

• Simple (KISS) small but in detail
• Understandable for all
• Success is not determined by the
• Time can be an enemy or friend
• Language what does this mean to each other?

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Questions?