Gabrielle Thormann
Stewart, K. W.
(2015). How to engage your community in
the school library. School Library Monthly, 31(7), pg. 16-18.
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This brief straightforward article lays out a ground plan for involving most members of community in the school library. This school librarian had been happily collaborating with teachers, and after attending a training session at Harwood Institute sponsored by ALA, he decided to create community engagement and collaboration. He did so by creating three basic questions and with the approval of administration began the process. He created ground rules for meetings, started by meeting with students and then with others in the school, and finally parents. He collected the responses and created a kind of forum for all to see the responses. Then the responses were organized and analyzed for themes. The themes/responses were displayed which generated new discussions and ideas. From these discussions a five-year plan emerged for the school library. As of the writing of this article, the school is about halfway through the plan, and the author reports that the goals have almost been reached, and largely because the community supports the plan for the library program.
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This brief straightforward article lays out a ground plan for involving most members of community in the school library. This school librarian had been happily collaborating with teachers, and after attending a training session at Harwood Institute sponsored by ALA, he decided to create community engagement and collaboration. He did so by creating three basic questions and with the approval of administration began the process. He created ground rules for meetings, started by meeting with students and then with others in the school, and finally parents. He collected the responses and created a kind of forum for all to see the responses. Then the responses were organized and analyzed for themes. The themes/responses were displayed which generated new discussions and ideas. From these discussions a five-year plan emerged for the school library. As of the writing of this article, the school is about halfway through the plan, and the author reports that the goals have almost been reached, and largely because the community supports the plan for the library program.
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