The Future of School Libraries: Keeping Up

These yearly reports and "best-of" lists are great for keeping up with current trends.

More and more librarians are using video to keep up to date with recent technology trends.

Read these articles to keep up with the trend of digital literacy.

Access free lesson plans online to keep up with best practices and share ideas with your online professional community.

New websites are consistently springing up. Make sure to keep up with any new resources.

Go straight to the source and see the future of 21st Century libraries, today!

Included here are some prepared presentations. Refer to them for ideas, graphics, logical order, etc.

Keep making the connections that students in schools with good school libraries learn more, get better grades, and score higher on standardized tests than their peers without libraries.

Keep track of the latest standards and assessments for digital literacy and 21st Century learning.

"The Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians" by Dr. Joyce Valenza is an excellent step-by step set of recommendations for what a 21st Century school librarian needs to do to survive in the information age.