Elevating the School Library by Kristin Rosenberg

What does your school library offer that is unique and needed or desired by your stakeholders?

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What elements of your school library brand do you think have achieved stickiness with your current brand loyalist?

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If perception precedes reality, how do you think your administrator perceives your school library? Your educators? Your learners?

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How do you become a Level 5 leader? What if you currently see yourself as a Level 4 or even a Level 3 leader?

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What other thoughts do you have about chapter 1?

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Can you identify five types of users (not five people) in your learning community that you could develop into personas?

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Thinking about Morville’s honeycomb, is your school library user-centered? Would your users characterize the school library and the information and resources there as useful, usable, desirable, findable, accessible?

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What group of stakeholders is your first priority to personify in working to develop your school library brand?

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Service Culture-developing overwhelmingly positive relationships with individual patrons

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What makes building these relationships so hard in a school library setting?

What kinds of memories do your library users have about their experiences in your library?

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What rules and regulations can you revisit, revise, or eliminate to make the school library more hospitable?

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How can you commit to the overall school library brand promoted in the AASL Standards and ensure more consistency of user experience?

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How does your learning community inform your school library practices?

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Does your community have input into the policies, programs, collection, and physical space in your school library?

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Want to see the National School Library of the Year rubric?

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What other thoughts do you have about chapter 2?

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What other thoughts do you have about chapter 3?

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Describe how you might develop your school library brand in relationship to your school community, it’s needs and it’s culture.

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What kinds of results would you anticipate from your work?

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How will you continue to adjust and improve brand experience for your community?

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Do you anticipate any challenges or pitfalls in relation to brand development and management? How might you work to mitigate those challenges?

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What other thoughts do you have about chapter 4?

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What data sources do you pull from for library data?

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What demographic data will best assist you in developing a profile of learning community and its needs?

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How might you go about using focus groups, interviews, or surveys to find out who is not using the library and why?

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How does data and evidence inform your professional development needs?

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How can you change your circulation and fine policies to be more supportive of student literacy?

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Once unique barriers are identified, how do you market the need for change with the stakeholders identified in the AASL personas, and in your own personas, while promoting your brand?

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Who’s the library designed for?

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Once unique barriers are identified, how do you market the need for change with the stakeholders identified in the AASL personas, and in your own personas, while promoting your brand?

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In addition to observational notes, what data and evidence might you use to evaluate how users interface with the school library facility?

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What forms of two-way communication would assist you to avoid marginalization and at the same time develop improved support for funding the staffing and resource needs of the school library?

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What personality type do your students find when they open the door, virtually or physically? How can you give yourself and “attitude and image adjustment”?

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Does your collection-development plan include improving the diversity and currency of your resources?

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What are some ways in which you can establish priorities for professional development/continuing education?

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If you do not have a library supervisor like Margot, you may need to develop an alliance with whomever your direct supervisor is. How would you approach that person for assistance?

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How might you adapt the AASL Standards’ School Library Evaluation Checklist for your own purposes?

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How can you maximize working with other school librarians in your district to tackle brand barriers?

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Was Margot’s subterfuge fair in semi-outing the principal about his use of the library para-professional? What would you do in a similar situation?

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How might you leverage your PD/CE to ensure maximum impact for your learning community?

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If you do not have a school library supervisor, which administrator, or group of librarians, can you connect with to develop a communications plan for your school library?

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What messaging is most important to your learning community?

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Which of the traditional communication vehicles would be most effective to promote your brand?

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How might you ramp up your school library social media presence to reach more stakeholders?

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