{"id":11981,"date":"2015-11-23T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=11981"},"modified":"2015-11-22T22:42:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T03:42:07","slug":"gimme-a-c-for-collaboration-starting-points-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/gimme-a-c-for-collaboration-starting-points-for-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimme a C (for Collaboration!): Starting Points for Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SPLC<\/a>As a member of the AASL\/ALSC\/YALSA Interdivisional Committee on School-Public Library Cooperation, I\u2019ve had the pleasure of discussing and sharing ideas with other dedicated librarians on how we can all work together to benefit the kids and teens with whom we work.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve created the following list for both school and public librarians to use in sparking their own creative ideas for helping all youth become information literate.<\/p>\n

Why not give some of these a try?<\/p>\n

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  1. Look for grant-funding opportunities<\/strong> specifically for school library-public library partnerships.<\/li>\n
  2. Set aside time to visit<\/strong> with your public librarian to discuss your school’s curriculum and any big projects your teachers have planned.<\/li>\n
  3. Schedule a few hours to shadow<\/strong> the public librarian and invite him or her to do the same. This will help you build mutual understanding about what the other\u2019s job entails.<\/li>\n
  4. Have a library card sign-up event<\/strong> at the school during Library Card Sign-Up Month (September). Make a special day of it or have an evening of gaming. Be sure to include the public librarian in the planning, promotion, and supervising the event.\u00a0If an event isn’t possible, see if the public librarian can come to the school to hand out library card forms at lunchtime. This would work especially well in middle or high school.<\/li>\n
  5. Create book lists and resource guides<\/strong> in cooperation with your public librarians. You might focus on materials that support reading in the content areas, science and social studies topics in particular. Include materials from both the public and school library collections.<\/li>\n
  6. Co-host nonfiction book clubs<\/strong> for students and for teachers.<\/li>\n
  7. Invite the public librarian<\/strong> to make a presentation to the teachers at your school during the school’s teacher in-service day about public library resources that support Common Core State Standards.<\/li>\n
  8. Host a joint meeting<\/strong> with the public librarians and your fellow school district librarians to discuss Common Core, 21st<\/sup> Century Standards and state\/local curriculum expectations and the public library’s role in student learning.<\/li>\n
  9. Talk\u00a0about early literacy programming<\/strong>\u00a0in the public library and how it\u00a0connects to the school librarian’s work with K-2 students.<\/li>\n
  10. Use the public library as a facility for after-school tutoring for students<\/strong>, especially in reading. The public librarian and school librarian can collaborate to recruit volunteers.<\/li>\n
  11. Coordinate joint activities<\/strong> that integrate\u00a0the public library\u2019s summer reading program with the school’s summer programming.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As you can see, there are many ways school and public librarians can work in cooperation. You may already be using some of these suggestions, but if not, what’s stopping you?<\/p>\n

    When we all work together, it\u2019s a win-win situation for everyone!<\/p>\n

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    Linda Weatherspoon<\/strong>\u00a0serves on the\u00a0AASL Board of Directors\u00a0and is a member of the AASL\/ALSC\/YALSA Interdivisional Committee on School-Public Library Cooperation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As a member of the AASL\/ALSC\/YALSA Interdivisional Committee on School-Public Library Cooperation, I\u2019ve had the pleasure of discussing and sharing ideas with other dedicated librarians on how we can all work together to benefit the kids and teens with whom we work. We\u2019ve created the following list for both school and public librarians to use in sparking their own creative ideas for helping all youth become information literate. Why not give some of these a try? Look for grant-funding opportunities specifically for school library-public library partnerships. Set aside time to visit with your public librarian to discuss your school’s curriculum and any big projects your teachers have planned. Schedule a few hours to shadow the public librarian and invite him or her to do the same. This will help you build mutual understanding about what the other\u2019s job entails. Have a library card sign-up event at the school during Library…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[765,38,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-programming-ideas","category-school-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}