Future ready presentation for district Learning Commons Facilitators.

1. HEY Y’ALL
ARE YOU FUTURE
READY?
PRESENTED BY: CATHY FISCHBUCH
BLOG: LAKIELIBRARY.WORDPRESS.COM
INSTAGRAM: LAKIELIBRARY
APRIL 9, 2018

2. WHAT TODAY IS ABOUT…
 ADVOCACY
 IDEAS
 TRENDS AND MORE STUFF I PICKED UP WHILE AT THE TEXAS LIBRARY
ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE IN DALLAS TEXAS
 FOLLET TIPS AND TRICKS

3. Advocacy
 They don’t know what we do because we don’t show or tell them.
Instagram is great for this, photo documentation and a short caption
will go along way.
 Don’t be afraid to toot your own horn
 Need help with advocating
 https://s3.amazonaws.com/WebVault/SLJ/capstone/PowerOfSchoolLibrarians_C
apstone_8pages_Mar2018.pdf

4. APRIL IS SCHOOL LIBRARY MONTH
 EVERYONE IN OUR BUILDINGS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IT AND WANT TO
CELEBRATE IT
 PSA ANNOUNCEMENT TO SHARE:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct5DexO-HkM

5. Folks should know how important our
role is and how libraries are
transforming.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUCiFfcAXUk

6. APRIL IS ALSO POETRY MONTH
 EVERYONE IN OUR BUILDING SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IT AND WANT TO
CELEBRATE IT…
THIS IS INSPIRED! PROMPT FROM PAGE 109: MY SCHOOL LIBRARIAN
TURNED INTO A FLY ON THE FIFTH DAY OF FOURTH GRADE.

7. Want to celebrate more often?
 Try out these calendars of fun, interesting, unusual dates
 http://www.educationworld.com/holidays/
 http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/
 https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/fun
 Turn and talk to someone close by and find out what they’ve celebrated
this year.

8. TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
CONFERENCE 2018
Why do I go?
What sessions I signed up for?
Smashing the Research Project
Getting contected with the Global Read Aloud
Better together: Schools, Libraries and Museums
Future Ready Libraries: Empower students as creators
Ditch the Breakout Box
Curation tools
Texas Tea
Future Ready Libraries : Leading Beyond the Library
Hot of the Press : new titles for M.G. & Y.A.

9. Highlights
 Meeting authors & illustrators

10. Highlights
 Exploring new products

11. Highlights
 Meeting with publisher reps
 Tundra Books is about to launch a terrific new web series called in the
illustrators studio.
 You get the inside scoop on books that publishers are excited about and books
that are in the works
 A ton of ARC’s

12. Highlights
 Hearing what other schools are doing

13. Highlights
 Loads of ideas I want to try:
 Innovation / creativity kits – STEM boxes to go
 Collaborate with public library, museum and nature centre
 Digital breakout
 Collaborate with other middle schools using Flip Grid

14. BEING A FUTURE READY LIBRARIAN
 How are you raising the bar for yourself? Attending webinars? Exploring
new tech tools? Exploring Destiny? Or the ORC? Meeting with a new group
of school staff? Trying out new ideas?
 Turn and talk.

15. LIBRARIES TRANSFORMING
 Resource based (not just physical books), all kinds of resources
 Thought leaders
 All about student voice, student ownership
 Should be about services not just resources
 Curator
 Dot connector
 The great collaborator
 Toot your own horn! Show off your expertise.
 Turn and talk about your expertise

16. FOLLETT
 Adding book trailers and author interview into your cataloguing records
 Please follow along
 Resource lists
 Destiny Discover Collections

17. THE END
 Please feel free to contact me with questions or comments.
 Cathy.fischbuch@lethsd.ab.ca
 We are better and stronger when we work together and share ideas,
successes and failures.