Lo / Rogers / Chiu Effective School Librarianship:

Successful Professional Practices from Librarians around the World: (2-volume set)
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-37011-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 534 Seiten

This new book, Effective School Librarianship: Successful Professional Practices from Librarians around the World (2-volume set), provides a series of informative interviews with school/teacher librarians practicing in different parts of the world. It showcases the resilience, creativity and best practices from successful school librarians from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America. The librarians interviewed come from all different schools and schools systems, from a tiny recently built school library in rural villages in Africa to the modern cities in Sweden, showing learning environment in different geographical, national, and cultural contexts, etc.

Featuring 37 interviews with successful school librarians from across the globe, the volume lets us hear the stories from Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Nigeria, the Philippines, Serbia, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe, and many more. They tell about their creative and innovative school library projects, their unconventional reading programs, and their best practices and experiences in addressing the challenges of supporting basic literacy. A wide selection of methodologies and approaches are discussed, offering a global "voyage" through topics important in school librarianship. The 2-volume set also addresses recent advancements in information and communication technologies (ICTs), and the shift toward inquiry-based learning that impacts school libraries worldwide.

The school librarians’ best practices cover innovative ways to encourage students to (1) read voluntarily for pleasure and for information; (2) to gain basic information literacy skills for the navigation, evaluation and use of information; (3) and to develop competence as independent learners—a key factor for successful enquiry-based learning.

The books are jam-packed with information that can be used by school librarians, teachers, school administrators and others in a variety of ways. Readers can borrow best practices from the experiences presented in the book, and the volumes can also serve as a strong voice for the practicing school librarians and the profession, through expanding the opportunities for professional sharing in the international school librarian community.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lo, Patrick

Rogers, Heather

Chiu, Dickson, K.W.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1: The Americas and Europe

Using Zombie Comics to Motivate Students to Read

Janet Kanady

The School Library: A Challenging Place to Work

Nicole Lewis

School Librarian: A 21st Century Vision for Teaching and Learning

Maura Madigan

School Librarianship: It Is All About Building Relationships

Judith Ashby

The Modern Bookworm! She’s Stranger Than Fiction!

Mona-Lynne Ayotte

Stories Told by a School Librarian from Land of the Maple Leaves

Aaron Mueller

A Resource Center in the Struggling Latin America

Carlos Diaz

JCSP School Libraries Creating a Learning Culture in Irish Schools

Hilary Cantwell

Job Satisfaction though Diverse Collaboration – I Slipped into the Best Career Ever

Christina Nord

Promoting Integration – What Can We School Librarians Do?

Matz Flodin

The School Library: Where Real Self-Directed Learning Takes Place

Slavica Juric

School Librarian Stories from a City That Is Built on Two Continents

Melis Roberts

School Librarians as Roadmap for Guiding Children Who Will Shed Lights on Our Future

Sevgi Arioglu

Being a School Librarian Is Mission (Im)possible?

Arijana Alispahic

The School Library as the Heart of All Learning and Teaching for the Whole School

Ajdin Begic

School Librarianship: The Quest for a Narrative That Demonstrates the Process of Understanding

Vanja Jurilj

The School Library as a Gateway to the World

Joke Boonstra

From the Land of Fire, Ice and Books

Berglind Inga Guðmundsdóttir

Dragon Myths Told by an Icelandic School Librarian / Dragonologist

Vignir Ljósálfur Jónsson



Volume 2: Africa, Asia, and Australia

A School Library in a Place Where There Has Never Been One Before! Building a Reading Culture in DR Congo

Katherine Shaw

Our Passion to Provide School Libraries to the Children of Zimbabwe

Hosea Tokwe

It is a Long, Long Walk to Books and Very Far Away from Information Access and Delivery: Stories from School Librarians in Zimbabwe

Jerry Mathema

My Library, My Lifeline

Dumebi Ezar Ehigiator

Children Experiencing the Joy of Reading in Japan

Mami Kobayashi

Bringing the Concepts of US Public Librarianship to a School Library in Hong Kong

Jun Niu, Tammy Ng, and Joli Moore

Modelling Your School Library After Starbucks? Successful School Librarian Stories from Hong Kong

Gloria Chan

Zarah Gagatiga: The Filipino School Librarian in Action

Zarah Gagatiga

A Large School Library in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, Is Run by a PhD Candidate

Apinun Seesun

Successful School Librarian Stories from the Land of Smiles

Wanpen Asakit

A School Library in the Wondrous Kingdom of Thailand

Wilasinee Thepwong

The Hidden Truth about the Undying Determination of a Successful School Librarian

Sharada Pandey Siwakoti

Helping Students in the Foothills of the Himalayas

Jeremiah O’Sullivan

A Teacher-Librarian with a Mission of Creating Information Literate Global Citizens!

Zakir Hossain

Libraries: A Flourishing Garden of Life

Andrew Downie

Making a Difference to Student Learning Through School Libraries

Madeleine Jane Viner

The Library Works at Being the Hub of the School

Kevin Whitney

Invitations Across Thresholds

Robyn Markus

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Patrick Lo is currently serving as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Library, Information & Media Science at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He has presented about 100 research papers and project reports focusing on librarianship, humanities, and education at different local and international workgroup meetings, seminars, conferences, etc., including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Turkey, United States, and Sweden, and at institutions including the Library of Congress (US), Austrian National Library (Vienna), University of Vienna, National Library of France (Paris), National Institute of Informatics (Japan), Konrad-Zuse-Centre for Information Technology (Berlin), etc. His research interests and areas of specialty include comparative studies in library and information science (LIS), art and design librarianship, and information literacy.

Dr. Lo’s recent publications on LIS include the books Conversations with the World’s Leading Opera and Orchestra Librarians and Preserving Local Documentary Heritage: Conversations with Special Library Managers and Archivists in Hong Kong. He is currently working on another interview book project titled Inside the World’s Major East Asian Collections: One Belt, One Road, and Beyond. This book will include interviews with East Asian librarian form the Vatican Library, State Library Berlin, Bavarian State Library, National Library of France, East Asian

Dr. Lo earned his Doctor of Education (EdD) from the University of Bristol (UK), and has a Master of Arts (MA) in Design Management from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS) from McGill University (Canada), and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Mount Allison University (Canada). He also took part in a one-year academic exchange at the University of Tübingen in Germany from 1990-91. He is proficient in Chinese (both Cantonese and Putonghua), English, and German.



Heather Rogers is currently a Master of Information Studies (MISt) candidate at McGill University focusing on librarianship and information literacy. Previously, she was an Assistant English Language Teacher for the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Programme in Fukushima, Japan, from 2013 to 2016. She graduated from The American University in Washington, DC with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in International Studies and Japanese.



Dickson K. W. Chiu, PhD, is now teaching at the University of Hong Kong and has also taught at several universities in Hong Kong. His research interest is in library and information management with a cross-disciplinary approach, involving workflows, software engineering, information technologies, management, security, and databases. The results have been widely published in over 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings (most of them have been indexed by SCI, SCI-E, EI, and SSCI), including many practical master and undergraduate project results. He received a best paper award in the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in 2004. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering. He also serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. He co-founded several international workshops and co-edited several journal special issues. He also served as a programme committee member for over 100 international conferences and workshops. He is a Senior Member of both the ACM and the IEEE, and a life member of the Hong Kong Computer Society.

Dr. Chiu received a BSc (Hons.) degree in computer studies from the University of Hong Kong and his MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He started his own computer company while studying part-time.