librarianship for the 21st century
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Librarianship for the 21st Century
School/Library Collaboration & Media Mentorship
Amy Koester | October 2015
Hello!• I’m Amy Koester
• Youth & Family Program Coordinator at Skokie (IL) Public Library
• The Show Me Librarian
• Co-author, “Media Mentorship in Libraries Serving Youth” white paper
Our Agenda
• School/Library Collaboration
• Time for Questions
• Media Mentorship
• Time for Questions
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School/Library Collaboration
Level 3:
Collective ImpactLevel 2:
Parallel Tracks
Level 1:
Transporting Services
Models of Collaboration
Level 1: Transporting Services
Individual goals, Individual pathways.
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Level 2: Parallel TracksSimilar goals, Individual pathways.
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Level 3: Collective ImpactCollaboration of goals & pathways.
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Cultivating Collaboration
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Cultivating Collaboration
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Gather the right team.
Cultivating Collaboration
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Gather the right team.
Ask: “What are our shared
goals?”
Cultivating Collaboration
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Gather the right team.
Ask: “What are our shared
goals?”
Identify a common goal.
Cultivating Collaboration
image modified from Blueprint by flickr user Will Scullin, CC BY 2.0
Gather the right team.
Ask: “What are our shared
goals?”
Identify a common goal.
Gather ideas to meet the
goal.
Cultivating Collaboration
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Gather the right team.
Ask: “What are our shared
goals?”
Identify a common goal.
Gather ideas to meet the
goal.
Prioritize ideas & make a
plan.
Cultivating Collaboration
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Gather the right team.
Ask: “What are our shared
goals?”
Identify a common goal.
Gather ideas to meet the
goal.
Prioritize ideas & make a
plan.
Implement!
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The library is part of a larger ecosystem.
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–Miguel Figueroa, Center for the Future of Libraries
How do libraries serve as part of a solution, as opposed to serving as the sole problem-
solver?
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–Sharon Cox, Queens Library Discovery Center
“Partnerships help us to develop more & more programs, & to bring those programs to the people we
are targeting.”
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–Marsha Semmel, formerly with IMLS
“Progress moves at the speed of trust.”
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Build in time for reflection.
So what does collective impact collaboration look like?
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• Design Thinking for Libraries - IDEO
• Turn Outward - Harwood Institute (Harwood in a Half Hour)
• A Collaboration Workbook - Heart of Brooklyn
Tools for Thinking about Collaboration
Questions so far?
Media Mentorship
Why media mentorship?
• Over 75% of households own digital media.
• Over 72% of youth 0-8 have used digital media.
• 71% of public libraries use new media in youth programs & services.
• 40% have tethered devices, 39% use in storytime.
• 22% offer device mentoring.
ALSC’s White Paper• Libraries serving youth
need to have media mentors.
• Media mentors support kids & families (objectively).
• Library schools need to train for media mentorship.
• Professional development needs to include media mentorship.
Media Mentor/ˈmēdēə ˈmenˌtôr/
noun
1. a person who supports children & their families in their decisions & practice
around media use2. a person who has access to, and
shares, recommendations for and research on children’s media use
What does media mentorship look like?
• Digital media in storytime — with parental asides
• App play & appvisory in programs
• Technology as the skill & program topic
• Mounted & circulating devices
• Curated lists• Training teens as media
mentors
The Media Mentor Toolbox
• Position Statements
• AAP, NAEYC/Fred Rogers Center, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Zero to Three, Lisa Guernsey
• Evaluative Resources
• Review Sources
• Evaluation Rubrics (Claudia Haines’s are GREAT!)
• New & Developing Research
