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Title: Bringing Vision to Practice: Planning and Provisioning the New Library Resource Center.
Author : Teacher Librarian
Release Date : January 01, 2004
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 186 KB

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FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, ENVISIONING THE IDEAL LIBRARY RESOURCE CENTER AND PLACING INTO PRACTICE THE BEST IDEAS GLEANED FROM VISITING DOZENS OF LIBRARIES, READING HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES, ATTENDING PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES, COURSEWORK, COLLEGIAL CONVERSATION AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE PRESENTS A TANTALIZING PROFESSIONAL CHALLENGE. By the time the doors open to welcome the first students, the teacher-librarian will have negotiated a gauntlet of selection decisions and purchasing compromises. Pitfalls abound and mistakes can be costly and difficult or even impossible to correct. In a perfect world, every time a new school library is commissioned, the teacher-librarian would be selected at the same time as the architect. The two professionals would work cooperatively to bring the ideal library resource center to reality. In practice, however, such forward-thinking collaboration is seldom the situation, and the teacher-librarian is almost always hired long after all major architectural decisions have been made and well into the construction process. Many fine books arid professional articles are available regarding the design of library buildings (see Erikson & Markuson, 2001; Klasing, 1991; Woodward, 2000), but I found nothing satisfactory in my search for the practical and political realities of provisioning a new school library resource center with a comprehensive collection, appropriate technologies, furniture, equipment and operational supplies.