School Librarian in Training
This is a blog created to fulfill the requirements in LS5013 at TWU.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Competency 9: Internet
When clicking on the "Librarians" link we are provided with "Top 12 Resources for Librarians." These are things that we can use to encourage and motivate our students to read. Some of the things on the list are videos of interviews with 80 popular authors such as Mo Willams who write the widely popular and loved Pigeon series. There are also themed book lists, author study kits and seasonal book activities that will be beneficial while lesson planning and setting up displays.
I chose this website because it is one that will be helpful for me now as a teacher, in my near future as a librarian as well as when I'm a parent. This is a useful guide that I will be sharing with collegues at the return of school in August.
Competency 8: Research visual/multimedia

I found this visual while searching google images for "reading motivation in school libraries" for the previous post. It was a part of the School Library Journal's spending survey for the year 2006. It breaks down each of the motivational programs found in libraries and how many schools are spending budget money or participating in them. I was very surprise with how high the number were for neither school/classroom or the Library Media Center. Many of these activities are budget friendly such as Intergenerational reading programs or family literacy reading programs, yet schools aren't doing them.
Image found:
Shontz, Marilyn L and Leslie S. J. Farmer. "The SLJ Spending Survey." School Library Journal.
Media Source Inc., 1 Jan. 2007. Web. 21 July 2010.
<http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6403260.html>
Competency 7: Image

Teachers from the school reading books available at the book fair.

Popular cartoon series advertising books about being called names to promote no name calling week.

Characters from TV's Hannah Montana showing off books about friendship.

Nancy Drew identifies the good mystery books.
A display of Twilight-esque books for those who can't get enough of the vampires and werewolves.
These are perhaps my favorite. Flags placed inside of books displayed on top of the short stacks to grabs a student's attention.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Compentency 6: Specific Facet First
This search brought up 939 matches, which is still a lot, but I was unsure how to break it down even more. I also found this search to be very similar to the building block search. In the end, the article I chose for this search was about first graders and their preference for narrative and information books as well as the preferences between boys and girls.
Compentency 6: citation pearl growing search
The descriptors I chose to use were: reading motivation, school library, elementary.
After searching, I found 1o results. Most of them seemed to be relevant to the topic I was searching for.

I chose to look more closely at the first article that was provided. Overall, this was a good database to use for this type of a search. I'm not sure that it would be the best database to use if you are wanting to do a building block search.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Competency 6: Browsing Search Strategy

Competency 6: Building Block Search Strategy


Overall, I feel this search did a very good job of locating information that was relevant to my topic. Even hits that appeared that I did not find useful were simply because they focused on students at a higher education level rather than in the younger grades. To narrow my search even more I could have added an S4: elementary OR primary.