These slides accompanied an October 2015 webinar for the Mississippi Library Commission. The webinar incorporated two major aspects of 21st Century librarianship: meaningful collaborations between public libraries and schools, and media mentorship.

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Librarianship for the
21st Century
School/Library Collaboration & Media Mentorship
Amy Koester | October 2015

2. Hello!
• I’m Amy Koester
• Youth & Family Program
Coordinator at Skokie (IL)
Public Library
• The Show Me Librarian
• Co-author, “Media Mentorship
in Libraries Serving Youth”
white paper

3. Our Agenda
• School/Library Collaboration
• Time for Questions
• Media Mentorship
• Time for Questions

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School/Library Collaboration

5. Level 3:
Collective Impact
Level 2:
Parallel Tracks
Level 1:
Transporting Services
Models of Collaboration

6. Level 1: Transporting Services
Individual goals, Individual pathways.
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7. Level 2: Parallel Tracks
Similar goals, Individual pathways.
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8. Level 3: Collective Impact
Collaboration of goals & pathways.
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9. Cultivating Collaboration
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10. Cultivating Collaboration
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Gather the right
team.

11. Cultivating Collaboration
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Gather the right
team.
Ask: “What are our
shared goals?”

12. Cultivating Collaboration
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Gather the right
team.
Ask: “What are our
shared goals?”
Identify a
common goal.

13. Cultivating Collaboration
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Gather the right
team.
Ask: “What are our
shared goals?”
Identify a
common goal.
Gather ideas to
meet the goal.

14. Cultivating Collaboration
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Gather the right
team.
Ask: “What are our
shared goals?”
Identify a
common goal.
Gather ideas to
meet the goal.
Prioritize ideas
& make a plan.

15. Cultivating Collaboration
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Gather the right
team.
Ask: “What are our
shared goals?”
Identify a
common goal.
Gather ideas to
meet the goal.
Prioritize ideas
& make a plan.
Implement!

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The library is part of a larger ecosystem.

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–Miguel Figueroa, Center for the Future of Libraries
How do libraries serve as part of a solution, as
opposed to serving as the sole problem-solver?

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–Sharon Cox, Queens Library Discovery Center
“Partnerships help us to develop more & more programs, & to
bring those programs to the people we are targeting.”

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–Marsha Semmel, formerly with IMLS
“Progress moves at the speed of trust.”

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Build in time for reflection.

21. So what does
collective
impact
collaboration
look like?
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22. • Design Thinking for Libraries - IDEO
• Turn Outward - Harwood Institute (Harwood in a
Half Hour)
• A Collaboration Workbook - Heart of Brooklyn
Tools for Thinking about
Collaboration

23. Questions so far?

24. Media Mentorship

25. Why media mentorship?
• Over 75% of households own
digital media.
• Over 72% of youth 0-8 have
used digital media.
• 71% of public libraries use new
media in youth programs &
services.
• 40% have tethered devices,
39% use in storytime.
• 22% offer device mentoring.

26. ALSC’s White Paper
• Libraries serving youth need to
have media mentors.
• Media mentors support kids &
families (objectively).
• Library schools need to train for
media mentorship.
• Professional development
needs to include media
mentorship.

27. Media Mentor
/ˈmēdēə ˈmenˌtôr/
noun
1. a person who supports children & their
families in their decisions & practice around
media use
2. a person who has access to, and shares,
recommendations for and research on
children’s media use

28. What does media mentorship
look like?
• Digital media in storytime — with
parental asides
• App play & appvisory in programs
• Technology as the skill &
program topic
• Mounted & circulating devices
• Curated lists
• Training teens as media mentors

29. The Media Mentor Toolbox
• Position Statements
• AAP, NAEYC/Fred Rogers Center, Joan Ganz Cooney
Center, Zero to Three, Lisa Guernsey
• Evaluative Resources
• Review Sources
• Evaluation Rubrics (Claudia Haines’s are GREAT!)
• New & Developing Research

30. Final questions?
amy.e.koester@gmail.com
@amyeileenk
http://showmelibrarian.blogspot.com