Parent Support Network Meeting

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Parent Support Network Meeting

• Resources Available
• to Support
• Student Learning

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What Does a School Librarian Do?

• Provides equal access to information
• Teaches students how to find information from a
  variety of sources
• Teaches students to analyze information
• Provides electronic access to information
• Acts as a link to other libraries

Who Needs a School Librarian? New York Library
Association. 2008. SLMS. 24 Nov. 2008
lthttp//www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id52gt.
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What Does a School Librarian Do?

• Assists in the research process
• Supports the curriculum with additional resources
• Promotes leisure reading
• Collaborates with teachers to plan, teach, and
  evaluate instruction
• Develops ways to provide access to Internet
  resources

Who Needs a School Librarian? New York Library
Association. 2008. SLMS. 24 Nov. 2008
lthttp//www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id52gt.
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• Research has provided solid evidence that
  school library programsones with credentialed
  librarians, where librarians partner with school
  faculty, and whose school libraries have
  sufficient staffing and collectionscontribute to
  student achievement.

Smalley, Topsy N. College Success High School
Librarians Make the Difference. The Journal of
Academic Librarianship. 30.3 (2004) 193-8.
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The mission of the library media program is to
ensure that students and staff are effective
users of ideas and information.
Mission and Goals of the Library Media Program.
Information Power Building Partnerships for
Learning. 2007. American Library Association. 22
Nov. 2008 lthttp//www.ala.org/aaslTemplate.cfm?Sec
tioninformationpowerTemplate/ContentManagement/
ContentDisplay.cfmContentID19935gt.
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The mission is accomplished by

• providing intellectual and physical access to
  materials in all formats
• providing instruction to foster competence and
  stimulate interest in reading, viewing, and using
  information and ideas
• working with other educators to design learning
  strategies to meet the needs of individual
  students.

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Resources Available through the Library Media
Center

• Print resources
• Online databases
• Equipment
• Access to other libraries collections

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Print Resources

• Over 10,000 books in the library
• Fiction, non-fiction, and reference
• Support curriculum and provide opportunities for
  leisure reading
• Students may check out as many books as they can
  be responsible for
• Small selection of parenting books available soon

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Online Databases

• Compiles excerpts from books, journals, and
  magazines and places them in an easily searchable
  format
• Contains the most up-to-date information
  available
• May be accessed 24/7 from any computer
• Subscriptions to 35 different databases

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Equipment

• iPods
• DVD/VHS players
• Digital cameras
• Digital camcorders
• Flip videorecorders
• DVDs/Videos

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What is Plagiarism?

• Using words or ideas without properly giving
  credit to their sources
• Unintentional plagiarism is still plagiarism!

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Examples of Plagiarism

• Buying, stealing, or borrowing a paper
• Hiring someone to write your paper
• Using a paper that you turned in for another
  class
• Copying large or small sections of texts
• Cutting and pasting from the Internet
• Failure to cite the sources you used both in
  works cited page and in-text

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Ways to Avoid Plagiarism

• Give yourself enough time to complete an
  assignment.
• If you plan ahead, you will not be tempted to
  cheat because you are rushing to finish an
  assignment.

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Ways to Avoid Plagiarism

• 2. Stay organized.
• Make sure to write down the information needed
  for a citation at the same time as you are taking
  notes from a source.
• Use the works cited sheets available in the
  library and computer lab.

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Ways to Avoid Plagiarism

• 3. Document your sources.
• Re-read your paper and make sure that everything
  is cited properly.
• Follow the directions on the library page to make
  sure you are citing your sources correctly.

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Ways to Avoid Plagiarism

• 4. Ask questions!
• If you are unsure about what or how to cite, ask!

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Library Opportunities for Students

• Library is open before and after school to check
  out books
• Students may come to the library from study hall
• Classes come to the library for research
  instruction
• Independent Study
• Pageturners