The Collection's at the Core
eBook - ePub

The Collection's at the Core

Revitalize Your Library with Innovative Resources for the Common Core and STEM

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Collection's at the Core

Revitalize Your Library with Innovative Resources for the Common Core and STEM

About this book

Common Core standards, OER, STEM, and collection development—where to begin? This book investigates these critical topics together to give you the power to transform your collection and practice and put your school library at the center of STEM. Curricula that focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas of study aren't just important for furthering competency and careers in these fields; STEM helps ensure that future generations include inventive and critical thinkers. Digital resources offer a current, exciting direction to involve school librarians with their STEM teachers. With its specific focus on open digital multimedia learning resources, this book will enable school librarians to take advantage of this opportunity and evaluate, build, and maintain their STEM collections. The book comprises three sections: an overview of policy initiatives; a thorough exploration of STEM education policy, digital materials, and collection considerations; and detailed explanations of strategies for collection development and promotion. You'll learn how to perform a collection analysis to determine the age and extent of your STEM collections and make priorities for enriching them with appropriate digital multimedia resources as well as how to classify resources using Dewey and Sears and with regard to the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 STEM Is Important to Librarians
  9. 3 The Common Standards Movement Is Important for School Librarians
  10. 4 Curation Part 1: Selecting and Describing STEM Digital Resources
  11. 5 Curation Part 2: Managing and Promoting Your STEM OER Collection
  12. 6 Summary and Conclusions: An Open Letter to School Librarians and Science Educators
  13. Appendix A: Starting Points for Locating Vetted K–12 STEM OER
  14. Appendix B: K–12 STEM OER Collections with Downloadable Records Available Through the NSDL
  15. Appendix C: K–12 STEM OER Video Collections
  16. References
  17. Index
  18. About the Author