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N E W S L E T T E R November/December 2007 Volume XXVII, No Association of Jewish Libraries N E W S L E T T E R November/December 2007 Volume XXVII, No. 2 Learn @ Your Library: Librarians Are Teachers Too SU S AN DUBIN Unfortunately, libraries and librarians have been largely Finding information in itself is meaningless unless it can overlooked as key members of the team responsible for our be used. That is why librarians work closely with classroom children’s education. teachers and administrators to tie research projects into the Who is your librarian anyway? curriculum. The most successful teaching helps students A) Checkerin and checkerout in the real world. So part of a librarian’s job as teacher is to B) Book shelver and straightener help students organize the information they have found into C) The sssher a useful presentation. That presentation can take the form D) A valuable teacher of a research paper, a multimedia presentation, a graph, a If you answered “D” you are correct. Why should library computerized presentation or whatever has been assigned. teachers be cornerstones of elementary education today? It is important that library skills be taught using the If the children in your school were asked, they would classroom curriculum so that these skills are per- answer that their library teacher introduces them ceived as necessary tools to accomplish overall to exciting people, helps them experience great educational objectives. adventures, and stretches their imaginations A typical day in our libraries consists of a through a love of books and a quest for half-hour to fifty-minute directed lesson knowledge. Their librarian is the person Librarian for as many as seven different classes. who teaches them how to appreciate Every child is instructed in using literature and to locate, evaluate, on a classification system (like the and assimilate information. Dewey Decimal System or Weine or First and foremost your librarian’s Board! Elazar), introduced to different types objective is to teach students to appreciate of literature, and taught to use print and the resources available to them in print and multimedia resources. Small-group and in- non-print formats. We all want students to enjoy dividual research time is provided as needed. reading for pleasure and to find research a great During recess and lunch, children visit the library adventure. Librarians reach this objective by: voluntarily to participate in any number of activi- • Sharing their enthusiasm for books and research ties: answering a question of the week, helping shelve, • Facilitating the discovery of great books through the process, or straighten books for the library club; using the use of book talks puppet theater; listening to a story or music at the listening • Rewarding positive reading behavior through reading center; using the computers; playing a library game; reading; contests meeting an author or storyteller; checking in or out books; • Promoting research through class and group projects or just visiting the librarian. • Finding a student’s on-switch by matching the perfect As library instructors, we interact with all the children and book with each child’s interests and reading level staff. Unlike classroom teachers who see one new group of Enthusiasm for literature is contagious! Librarians teach children every year, we see students through all their years and continually reinforce techniques for locating informa- at our schools. That means we can really observe each child tion. Whether it is instructing students in using a library grow and develop. catalog (online or card), the reference collection, or the It has been said that teachers touch the future. Librarians Internet, librarians are experts and are eager to share their act as the bridge between that future and the accumulated knowledge. Students sometimes ask if we librarians know knowledge and wisdom of the past as it has been collected. everything. The answer is, “Of course not! But we do know Librarians are the teachers who show students how to find, how to look it up.” evaluate, and use the wisdom that is shelved in their own Nowadays finding information is not the problem. There libraries and the libraries of the world. In a sound bite world, is an abundance, indeed, an over-abundance of information how do we get children to want to read? The answer is to out there. The main thrust of library teaching today is help- make books and libraries the exciting foundation upon which ing students learn how to evaluate the information they find to build a strong educational experience. That is our goal as and decide what is valid and valuable. library teachers. Association of Jewish Libraries Doris Orenstein P.O. Box 1118 President’s Message Teaneck, NJ 07666 SU S AN DUBIN Memorial Fund 212-725-5359, [email protected] YELENA LUCKERT The AJL Newsletter (Irene Levin- AJL President Laurel Wolfson is nursing her ailing mother Wixman z”l, founding editor) is published quarterly by the in Louisville, so I am writing the “president’s column” in The Doris Orenstein Memo- Association of Jewish Libraries her stead. We all wish her mother a refuah shlemah and hope rial Fund provides stipends to inform members about associa- tion activities and issues related that Laurel will again pick up pen and paper (or her com- for AJL members to attend to Judaica libraries. Receipt of the puter keyboard) to share her thoughts with us in the next their first AJL Convention. newsletter is one of the benefits of Please think of this fund as membership. Annual dues are $50 Newsletter. for individuals or institutions. Now that the holiday rush is over, there are many tasks you remember loved ones or for AJL to accomplish. The work of the association is carried commend others’ achieve- Please send requests for member- ship and dues information to: out by the various committees that are listed on our web site. ments. Joseph (Yossi) Galron Many committees are looking for new members. Please see This is a wonderful way P.O. 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It is the official position of the Association of • Libby White, in memo- [email protected] Jewish Libraries that libraries are a vital part of all institutions ry of Charlotte Schoen, Adult Review Editor of learning, and that libraries should be staffed by competent, mother of Debbie Merrily F. Hart knowledgeable, well-trained librarians or library educators. Stern Siegal College of Judaic Studies 26500 Shaker Blvd. The AJL Professional Development and Education Commit- • G e o r g e & D i a n e Beachwood, OH 44122 tee offers courses at the convention, regional workshops, and Rauchwerger, in hon- [email protected] other venues for professional development. 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