Making Flexible Access and Flexible Scheduling Work Today

by Karen Ohlrich

Overview

Flexible scheduling and flexible access have been around for years, but students in many school systems have yet to reap their benefits. Full of fresh perspectives, this easy-to-follow guide gives you an overview of the concepts and then takes you step-by-step through the process of implementing them in your school to create lifelong learners, readers, and library users of your students. An excellent tool for clarifying to a school community the win-win situation created by these changes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563088582
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/15/2001
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.37(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

KAREN BROWNE OHLRICH is a retired school library media specialist, Howard County Public Schools, in Maryland. Ohlrich currently works as a school library consultant and reading tutor living in Basalt, Colorado.

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	xi
	Preface	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xv
	Introduction	xvii
1	Creating Lifelong Learners, Readers, and Library Users	1
	Creating Lifelong Learners and Eventually Readers and Library Users	2
	Instituting Flexible Access As a Catalyst to Create Lifelong Learners, Readers, and Library Users	5
	Using Flexible Scheduling As a Catalyst to Create Lifelong Learners, Readers, and Library Users	7
	Helping a School Move Toward School-Wide Goals	9
2	Describing Flexible Access and Flexible Scheduling	13
	Defining Flexible Access	15
	Flexible Access Allows Access to the Library Media Center's Space	15
	Flexible Access Allows Access to the Resources of the Library Media Center	16
	Flexible Access Allows Access to the Library Media Center's Services	16
	Explaining Flexible Access	16
	Defining Flexible Scheduling	19
	Explaining Flexible Scheduling	20
3	Making Adjustments in the Library Media Center	23
	Adding Depth to the Role of the Library Media Specialist	25
	Creating a Library Media Technology Committee	27
	Enlisting the Help of Volunteers in the Library Media Center	28
	Developing the Leadership Role of the Library Media Specialist	32
4	Taking Steps Forward with Flexible Access and Flexible Scheduling	35
	Instituting Some Flexible Access	37
	Student Checkout Can Be Flexible	38
	Small Groups and Classes Can Use the Library Media Center When Necessary	41
	Using Some Flexible Scheduling	43
	Changes in the School's Schedule Can Be Used to the Students' Advantage	54
	Extra Library Literacy Lessons Can Start Adding Up	56
5	Becoming a Day School	59
	Fully Instituting Flexible Access	60
	Fully Utilizing Flexible Scheduling	62
	A Library Media Specialist's Plan Book Can Fill Up Fast	63
	A Useful Plan Book Can Be Created	71
	Administrative Time Can Be Pinpointed	75
6	Planning Ahead for Success	79
	Understanding Change	80
	Learning from Others	83
	There Are Change Factors That Are Within the Library Media Specialist's Control	84
	There Are Change Factors That Need the Support of Others	86
	Remaining Flexible	88
7	Integrating Information Literacy Skills into the Classroom Curriculum	91
	Teaching the Essential Lessons	92
	Looking Closely at the Integration of Skills and Teaching for Transfer	94
	Information Literacy Skills Are Easy to Integrate	95
	Teaching for Transfer Increases a Lesson's Worth	96
	Adjusting Successful Library Literacy Lessons	97
	Creating New Integrated Library Literacy Lessons	99
	Using Handy Lesson Logistics	101
8	Planning and Collaborating with Teachers	105
	Preplanning	107
	Adjusting Steps in the Planning Process	109
	Starting the Planning Process at a Comfortable Level	112
9	Sharing the Advantages of Flexible Access and Flexible Scheduling with the School Community	117
	Recognizing What Flexible Access Offers	118
	Facts and Figures Agree: There Are Advantages to Flexible Access	119
	There Are Additional Advantages to Flexible Access	120
	Recognizing What Flexible Scheduling Offers	122
	Facts and Figures Agree: There Are Advantages to Flexible Scheduling	122
	There Are Additional Advantages to Flexible Scheduling	124
	Outlining the Additional Advantages to Flexible Access and Flexible Scheduling to the School Community	126
	Presenting the Disadvantages and Making Adjustments After Feedback	128
	Problems Are Possible	128
	Adjustments Can Be Made Based on Feedback	130
	Continuing to Outline the Advantages of Flexible Access and Flexible Scheduling	131
10	Stepping Forward to Create Lifelong Learners, Readers, and Library Users	133
	Taking Steps Forward	134
	Taking the Paths to Create Lifelong Learners, Readers, and Library Users	135
	Bibliography	143
	Index	149

Editorial Reviews

This revision of the 1993 edition has been updated to include sections on Internet filtering, gay and lesbian literature, and challenges to books on witchcraft and the occult. Reichman addresses what to do to prevent or prepare for censorship problems, what to do in specific situations, and legal issues and relevant cases. The appendixes offer an interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights, a workbook for selection-policy writing, a sample selection policy, guidelines for student publications, dealing with questions about library resources, a selected list of concerned national organizations, summaries of related legal cases, and an annotated bibliography on the First Amendment and Intellectual Freedom. The author mentions an evening course for parents taught by an English teacher on "Books Our Children Read" noting: "It is imperative that public schools reach out-before controversy arises." This book, paired with Pat Scales's Teaching Banned Books (ALA, 2001), would certainly satisfy needs on this topic for librarians and media specialists, and is a great resource for teaching First Amendment rights in the classroom. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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