Curate

Shared Foundation IV
Leslie Cooper 
Collecting, Organizing, and Sharing Resources
Librarians maintain an abundance of resources that complement both the standards and scholars’ interests and needs. Librarians can help select interactive technology tools for working with small student groups to guide standards-based projects, perspectives, and publish scholars’ work. Librarians help scholars curate information in efficient and effective ways. Ms. Cooper gave me great knowledge of how to create readers. Read and know the books on your shelves, how else are you going to tell scholars what to read. This is not the first time someone has told me to listen to my books because they will speak to me. To know your books is to set yourself up for success. Knowing your books is a powerful tool because you will know what you have and what you need for your scholars’ interest. One of the most memorable statements she made was the power we have to buy a book and give it to the right student who needs it just resonated in my soul. Students will value what you value. Ms. Cooper reminded me that one way to keep up with new materials is to serve on a book award committee so I can learn how to recommend books for students. She looks at the AASL standards in reverse and tracks how they naturally fit in with what she is doing. Do everything you can to create readers. Be reader-driven. In order to keep the library shelved cultivate volunteers when there is no library clerk or support. A major challange is that rarly is the library credited for student growth is scores. 

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