Over the past 10 years, I have utilized a number of strategies to engage my teachers and communicate the value and importance of library resources, especially the value of a certified teacher librarian. I created a library menu, using humor and visuals to offer choices from quick lessons all the way through fully co-taught units. Our teachers are split-up into subject and tracked level teams to best align curriculum and standards. I get to attend these meetings as well as occasionally present on topics like useful Google cheats, Destiny hosted OERs, specific print or electronic resources...
30 July 2019
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11 June 2019
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RAILS provides programs and services to approximately 1,300 academic, public, school, and special libraries in the north and west-central part of Illinois. A very frequent request from all types of members is for help telling their stories and proving their value to their different stakeholders. Because this topic is so important to our members, the second goal in RAILS new strategic plan (revised in 2018) is to Work with libraries of all types to tell the library story.
Earlier this year, RAILS conducted a survey of all of our libraries to discover how we could best help...
7 May 2019
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Do you want your visitors to share their stories about your library on MyLibraryIs.org? You can put a link for our "Tell Your Library Story" submission form, with your library's name already filled in, on your website.
Here's the HTML code to use for your link:
<a href="https://www.mylibraryis.org/node/add/library-story?edit[field_library_relationship][und][28]=28&edit[field_library_name][und][0][value]=YOUR LIBRARY NAME">Tell Your Story</a>
(Replace "YOUR LIBRARY NAME" with your library's name.)
After your patrons have started to post their...
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is a project of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System.