U.S. National Center for Education Statistics

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U.S. National Center for Education Statistics

• School Library Media Centers Selected Results
  from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002
  (ELS2002)
• Sample of 15,525 10th graders in 752 schools
• Found a significant correlation between student
  test scores and their use of the school
  librarystudents with higher test scores reported
  higher use of library resources for assignments,
  in-school projects and research papers, than
  those students whose composite test scores were
  in the lower range

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Linking Libraries and Academic AchievementMAXImiz
e Your Resources

• Its Virtually Possible!

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Looking Ahead
Dawn Vaughn, Presidents Column,
November/December 2004 Knowledge Quest

• Moores Law Technology will double in speed and
  drop in price by half every twelve months.
• Law of the Photon Computer speed doubles every
  six months.
• Internet Revolution in the last ten years
• Fifty percent of what we learned two years ago is
  inaccurate today(ten months for doctors).

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Search Engine Users
Pew Internet American Life Project, January 2005

• 84 of Internet users have used search engines.
• 68 of users say that search engines are a fair
  and unbiased source of information.
• 38 of searchers are aware of a distinction
  between paid and unpaid results 62 are not.
• 92 of those who use search engines say they are
  confident about their searching abilities.

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• Born to be Wired The Role of New Media for a
  Digital Generation, Yahoo study, June 2003
• Key Finding The Internet has become THE youth
  medium of choicetime spent with the Internet now
  exceeds the time spent with the television for
  the Millennial generation, youths aged 13 to 24

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• The Digital Disconnect The Widening Gap Between
  Internet Savvy Students and Their Schools, Pew
  Internet American Life Project, August 2002
• Virtually all middle and high school students use
  the Internet heavily to do research to help them
  write papers or complete class work or homework
  assignmentsas virtual textbook and reference
  libraryFor the most part, students educational
  use of the Internet occurs outside of the school
  day, outside of the school building, outside the
  direction of their teachers

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• Fitzgerald and Galloway study, 2001, online
  behavior of high school senior and undergraduate
  college students
• Students in both groups
• Had few resource-based inquiry projects in past
• Had difficulty distinguishing Internet resources
  from subscription databases
• Had difficulty selecting the best database for
  the project
• Had difficulty searching (did not use Boolean
  logic or Advanced Search did not use Help
  screens available)
• Had difficulty evaluating information found

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• Williams, Grimble, and Irwin study, 2004,
  teachers link to electronic resources in library
• Teachers encourage students to use the Internet
  in the school library media center, but most do
  not direct students to use databases.
• Teachers consider information from electronic
  databases to be more reliable and focused, but
  they say the Internet is faster, easier to use,
  and has a greater scope of information.

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• The Digital Disconnect The Widening Gap Between
  Internet Savvy Students and Their Schools, Pew
  Internet American Life Project, August 2002
• What did the students say?
• Schools should place priority on developing
  programs to teach keyboarding, computer, and
  Internet literacy skills.
• There should be continued effort to ensure that
  high-quality online information to complete
  school assignments be freely available, easily
  accessible, and age-appropriate.

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Linking Libraries and Academic AchievementMAXImiz
e Your Resources

• Its Virtually Possible!

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What?Why?Where?How?When?
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WHAT?

• A virtual presence
• A school library media center Web page

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WHAT to include?

• Links to FindItVa
• Links to databases
• Curriculum pathfinders
• Link to online catalog
• Links to professional resources
• Basic information literacy instruction (search
  tips, citation information, etc.)
• Accelerated Reader title list
• Information about the library and library events

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What NOT to include!

• Login and password information for databases
• Outdated or soon-to-be outdated information
• Pictures that are extremely slow to load

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WHY?

• Search Engine Users
• 68 say search engines fair and unbiased
  source!
• Born To Be Wired
• Youth spend a lot of time on the Internet!
• The Digital Disconnect
• They are researching outside of school!
• NCES--ELS 2002
• Significant correlation between test scores and
  library use!

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WHERE?

• Linked from the schools home page!
• For example,
• Gloucester High School
• Agnor Hurt Elementary School
• Springfield Township High School

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HOW?

• Write in html? Use FrontPage, Dreamweaver,
  Netscape Composer, Microsoft Publisher?
• Load it (have it loaded) to the school/division
  server
• Follow division policies and procedures
• Page content
• Page layout

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WHEN?

• As soon as possible ?

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WHY?

• Library Web page is librarys presence outside of
  school
• Page provides opportunity for teachers and
  parents to see you as information specialist
• Page is public relations/advocacy tool with
  administrators, teachers, students, and parents
• Page connects you to curriculum and instruction
  of school, at point of need!

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Exemplars

• Gloucester High School Library
• Glade Spring Middle School Library
• Agnor Hurt Library
• Murray High School
• Walter Reed Middle School Library
• Springfield Township High School Library

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Components

• Research ToolsAgnor Hurt Elementary
• How to Search EffectivelyMurray High
• Curricular LinksWalter Reed Middle
• Research ProcessWalter Reed Middle
• Curricular PathfindersSpringfield Township
• Research GuideSpringfield Township

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School Library Web Page Links

• Virginia Department of Education Library Media
  section
• School Libraries on the Web A Directory
• School-Libraries.Net

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IBM Commercial

• Were virtual
• theres always room

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Resources

• Born to be wired The role of new media for a
  digital generation. (2003). Retrieved February
  17, 2005, from http//us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i
  /promo/btbw_2003/btbw_execsum.pdf
• Blowers, H., Bryan, R. (2004). Weaving a
  library web A guide to developing childrens
  websites. Chicago ALA.

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• Davidsen, S., Yankee, E. (2004). Web site
  design with the patron in mind A step-by-step
  guide for libraries. Chicago ALA.
• The digital disconnect The widening gap between
  Internet-savvy students and their schools.
  (2002). Retrieved February 25, 2005, from
  http//www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/67/report_display
  .asp
• Fitzgerald, M.A., Galloway, C. (2001).
  Helping students use virtual libraries
  effectively, Teacher Librarian, 29(1), 8-14.

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• School library media centers Selected results
  from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002.
  (2002). Retrieved March 3, 2005, from
  http//nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid20
  05302
• Search engine users Internet searchers are
  confident, satisfied and trustingbut they are
  also unaware and naïve. (2005). Retrieved March
  1, 2005, from http//www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/146
  /report_display.asp
• Tapscott, D. (1998). Growing up digital The
  rise of the net generation. New York
  McGraw-Hill.

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• Vaughn, D. P. (2004). Presidents column
  Looking ahead. Knowledge Quest 33(2), 4-5.
• Williams, T.D., Grimble, B.J., Irwin, M.
  Teachers link to electronic resources in the
  library media center A local study of awareness,
  knowledge, and influence. School Library Media
  Research Online, 7 (2004). Retrieved January 6,
  2005, from http//www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsand
  journals/slmrb/slmrcontents/volume72004/williams.h
  tm
• Wilson, A. P. (2004). Library web sites
  Creating online collections and services.
  Chicago ALA.

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Contact Information

• Audrey Church
• Coordinator, School Library Media Program,
  Longwood University, Farmville, VA
• Email churchap_at_longwood.edu
• Phone [phone]
• Web page http//www.longwood.edu/staff/churchap