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The School Library in the 21st Century

Fall 2003
Volume 9 Number 1
ISSN: 1546-5020

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on the COVER:
Oregon Episcopal School students Maddy Duthie and Paul Kruss get help with Internet research strategies from middle school librarian Paula Spooner, who has embraced technology as an essential tool of the 21st century but still cherishes every chance to put a really good book into the hand of a child.
Photograph By Judy Blankenship

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ARTICLES

The Essential Link
The research is clear: When a professionally trained and certified school librarian collaborates with teachers, works with kids one-to-one, teaches information literacy, and reaches out to public libraries, students in her building perform better academically.
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A Very Welcoming Place
In the remote fishing community of Naknek on Alaska's Bristol Bay, ace librarian Tiki Levinson built a library program that inspired every student to read like crazy and every teacher to embrace new resources for their classrooms.
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Keeping Your Ear to the Ground
The best school librarians tirelessly seek out ways they can help teachers teach and students learn.
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No More 'Story Lady'
Marianne Hunter is a long way from the old-time librarian shushing kids in the stacks.
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Chief Information Officer
University of Washington Professor Mike Eisenberg, one of the nation's leading experts in school librarianship, describes his vision of the ideal school library program in an interview with Northwest Education.
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An Embarrassment of Riches
Technology has revolutionized the way school librarians work—and has made the librarian's expertise in finding and assessing resources absolutely essential.
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Seeing the Big Picture
Jan Allen and Lyn McKinney's library revamp is rippling throughout the school.
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Community Connectivity
The public library offers a rich and rewarding extension of the school library's necessarily limited resources.
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A Deep, Abiding Passion
Working side by side with teachers is Linda Masterson's greatest reward.
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