AASL Resource Guides for School Library Media Program Development
Collaboration
AASL Collaborative School Library Media Award
The $2,500 award, sponsored by Winnebago Software Company, recognizes and hopes to encourage collaboration and partnerships between school library media specialists and teachers in meeting educational goals outlined in Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning through joint planning of a program, unit, or event in support of the curriculum and using media center resources. Applicants must be AASL personal members.
Bush, Gail. The School Buddy System: The Practice of Collaboration. Chicago: American Library Association, 2002. ISBN 0-8389-0839-X
Librarian, award-winning collaborator, and researcher Gail Bush brings the concept of collaboration to life by outlining tangible steps you can take to inspire collaboration among librarians, teachers, administrators, and all team players involved in K-12 education. Packed with proven tools, including a ready-to-use framework for setting up a collaborative relationship; 40 discussion prompts to help initiate discussion and debate; common characteristics for establishing a collaborative mindset; background research to define the current climate; and thought-provoking quotes from education scholars and practitioners to help you step into the shoes of the other team players. Available from the ALA Online Store at http://www.alastore.ala.org or call 866-SHOP ALA (866-746-7252).
Grover, Robert, ed. Collaboration: Lessons Learned. Chicago: American Association of School Librarians, 1996. ISBN 0-8389-7871-1
This booklet demonstrates the benefits of and defines collaboration through the author's analysis of reports submitted by participants of Meeting in the Middle, an AASL five-day institute intended to foster collaboration among library media specialists, teachers, and administrators in middle schools. Available in packs of 25 for $25/pack (plus shipping and handling) from the ALA Online Store at http://www.alastore.ala.org/aasl or call 866-SHOP ALA (866-746-7252).
"The Principal's Manual for Your School Library Media Program Brochure. Chicago: American Association of School Librarians, 2000. ISBN 0-8389-8123-2
Addressed directly to the school principal, the brochure is designed to guide the principal in assessing and planning for the school library media program. Aids the principal to prepare with school library media staff, district administrators, teachers, students and parents for the next school year. Touches on library staff, resources, facilities, collaboration and making the school library media program the heart and hub of the learning community. Available in packs of 25 for $8/pack (plus shipping and handling) from the ALA Online Store at http://www.alastore.ala.org/aasl or call 866-SHOP ALA (866-746-7252). A free single copy is available upon request.
Bush, Gail. Every Student Reads: Collaboration and Reading to Learn. Chicago: American Library Association, 2005. ISBN 0-8389-8358-8.
This guide includes reading strategies designed for elementary and secondary students and voluntary reading programs supported by school libraries. It includes action steps for collaborative planning and teaching. Sample collaborative projects at all levels are written in lesson plan format, and are tied to information literacy standards.
Moreillon, Judi. Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Maximizing Your Impact. Chicago: American Library Association, 2007. ISBN 0-8389-0929-9.
This book provides a clear plan for teaching reading comprehension in a collaborative setting. It details seven strategies for strengthening cooperative programs with classroom teachers and includes graphic organizers, lesson plans and has a companion website for indepth information.
Montiel-Overall, Patricia and Donald Adcock, eds. Collaboration (Best of KQ). Chicago: American Library Association, 2007, 0-8389-8447-5.
This book brings together a variety of articles on the subject of collaboration that have been published in Knowledge Quest. Articles covering a) the big picture, b) research, and c) best practices are included.
Doll, Carol. Collaboration and the School Library Media Specialist. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5117-2.
This book incorporates the theory of collaboration from business and educational psychology literature and translates that theory into practical ideas and methods that can be used by school library media specialists.
Harada, Violet, Carolyn Kirio, and Sandra Yamamoto. Collaborating for Project-Based Learning for Grades 9-12. Columbus, OH: Linworth Publishing, 2008. ISBN 1-58683-291-3.
This forthcoming book is anticipated to be a guide for collaborating with high school teachers in order to guide students in inquiry based learning.
Miller, Donna. The Standards-based Integrated Library: A Collaborative Approach for Aligning the Library Program with the Classroom Curriculum, 2d ed. Columbus, OH: Linworth Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-58683-175-5.
This book will help library media specialists and teachers work together to collaboratively plan units that incorporate information literacy and content standards, and that are inquiry-based and interactive.
Buzzeo, Toni. Collaborating to Meet Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships for K-2. Columbus, OH: Linworth Publishing, 2007, ISBN 1-58683-189-5. Collaborating to Meet Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships for K-6, 2d ed. Columbus, OH: Linworth Publishing, 2007, ISBN 1-58683-302-2. Collaborating to Meet Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships for 7-12. Columbus, OH Linworth Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1-58683-024-4.
This set of volumes presents standards-based collaborative lessons in a standard template that can be adapted easily by users.
Donham, Jean. Enhancing Teaching and Learning: A Leadership Guide for School Library Media Specialists, 2d ed. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2004, ISBN 1-55570-516-2.
This book addresses two important roles of the library media specialist: leader and collaborator. In the first part, the author describes the relationship between libraries and other components of a school system. In the second part, a number of issues related to collaboration are discussed, including: collaborative planning, technology, assessment and scheduling, among others.
Farmer, Lesley S. J. Collaborating with Administrators and Educational Support Staff. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2006, ISBN 1-55570-572-3.
This book includes successful collaboration ideas for use with administrators, service personnel, school counselors, technology staff, co-curricular activities advisors or coaches and others.
Becker, Helaine. Collaborative Teaching in the Middle Grades: Inquiry Science. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2005, ISBN 1-59158-191-5.
This guide to collaboration focuses on the sciences, and addresses both the AASL Information Literacy Standards and the AAAS Benchmarks for Science Literacy. It includes sample lesson plans, reproducibles, and tools for assessment.
Copeland, Brenda and Patricia Messner. Collaborative Library Lessons for the Primary Grades: Linking Research Skills to Curriculum Standards. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2005, ISBN 1-59158-185-0.
This resource includes sample lesson plans for librarians and teachers to use with students in the primary grades. The lessons integrate research skills with curriculum standards in the social studies and science.
Information and Technology Literacy: A Collaborative Planning Guide for Library Media and Technology. Madison, WI: Department of Public Instruction, 2002. http://dpi.state.si.us/pubsales, search for item # 02107.
This guide was written to provide school districts with guidelines for collaborative planning between library media and technology programs. The goal is to provide equal access to knowledge in all forms.
Collaborative Program Planning and Teaching (http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/images/media/Collaborative%20Program%20Planning.pdf)
This twelve-page collaborative planning guide from Teacher Librarian has just about everything for designing units with teachers.
Collaboration Plans and Projects. Salem, OR: Oregon State Library
(http://www.oslis.org/librarians/index.php?page=teachCollaboration)
This page is part of the Oregon School Library Information System, a website provided by the Oregon State Library. It includes many sample collaborative unit plans.
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