Professional Development Library

One of the main missions of IASL is professional development, along a spectrum of school library functions and school library worker experience. To this end, IASL provides material resources, expert guidance, and training. This document describes IASL resources and ways to provide professional development (PD) using them.

A most important truth, which we are apt to forget, is that a teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. -- Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1913)
Source: https://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/dangerous-ideas-for-the-future-of-teaching-and-learning/

• IASL Basic Library Manuals from 2015
• AASL's Toolkits
• Creating a Scope and Sequence of Information and/or Digital Literacy Skills
  - PPT version
  - Digital literacy scope and sequence
  - Information literacy skills continuum
• Designing a School Library Website
  
• Detecting Plagiarism and Preventing It 
  
• Developing a School Library
  What's inside:
  - Library manuals
  - Creative library ideas
• - Free library management system
  - Useful toolkit for school librarians 
  - More complex library manuals
  - Book donations
  - School library development organizations
• Digital Citizenship 
  
• Disaster Recovery, 2015
  What's inside:
  - Disaster planning, response, and recovery including templates
  - Disaster relief & donations
  - Quick links for resource recovery
• Education-Related Publications
• Free Resources
  - Face-A-Book 
  - Adventurers Book Club 
  - Literacy outcomes 
  - Literature circles 
  - SLA orientation activities 
  - SLA policies & forms 
  - Reading Olympics
  - School library plan
  - Reading In Bed Is Terrific (RIBIT)
• Getting started: Ideas and Procedures for Starting a School Library Association
  -  A day in my Life 
  - IASL policy statement on school libraries 
  - Research in school librarianship: Role of IASL
• Global Education Projects - Coming Soon
  
• Guide to Writing Grant Proposals 
  What's inside:
  - Webinars and courses
  - Booklets
  - Brief information/overviews of the process
  - Grant writing websites
• Guidelines for Library-Based Literacy Programs
  
• Information Literacy Resources
  What's inside:
  - Definition of information literacy
  - International resources
  - Bibliographies
  - Toolkits, including those for assessing information literacy skills
  - Information literacy meta sites
  - Relevant journals
  - Policies, standards, and guidelines
  - Practical resources for IL implementation, including lessons
  - Information literacy and technology
  - Research
  - College readiness...or not
  - Sample materials to develop information literacy skills - from Turkey in Turkish language
• ISTE's New Digital Literacy Standards and Students
• Library Design/Learning Spaces 
  What's inside:
  - The relationship between learning and design 
  - Curated lists, bibliographies, and archives of resources
  - Inspiration
  - Razzle Dazzle: Create vibrant library spaces 
  - The entrance: What messages do you send?
  - Light up your library! 
  
• Library-Related Publications
  
• Maker Spaces
  - Poster
  - Presentation
• Mentoring
• Online Access to Professional Development Programs
  
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
  What's inside:
  - OER information
  - OER evaluative tool kits
  - Model policies & standards
  - OER repositories
  - Subject-specific OER
  
• Past Papers from IASL Conferences
• Periodicals
• Promoting Your Library - Coming Soon
  
• Public Library and School Library Cooperation
  
• Reading - by Susan La Marca, Helen Boelens and Elizabeth Greef - Coming Soon
  
• Recent School Library Research (compiled by the IASL Research Special Interest Group [SIG])
  
• Rubrics for Assessment of Student Skill Levels
  - Rubrics for Assessment Chart
     What's inside:
  - Pose real questions
  - Find resources
  - Interpret information
  - Report findings
  - Information skills rubric 
• Sample Policies for Small School Library Programs
  - The Library and Information Services, Transformation Charter
  - Chapel Elementary School library procedures
  - Chapel High School library procedures
  - St. Andrew's Cathedral School: Library policies
• School Libraries and Diverse Student Needs Video - CiSSL Talks
  
• School Library Advocacy Resources
  
• Student Motivation - Coming Soon
  
• Talking to Children About War and Terrorism
  
• Technology Integration in Schools
  What's inside:
  - Technology and teaching
  - Technology and research
  - App evaluation
  - Online resources: Web tools and apps
  - Digital resources by theme or purpose
  - BYOD links
• Tools for Assessing the Reading Levels of Books and Websites
  
• Translation Services Online
  
• Working with Your Administration
  
• Writing Articles for Non-Library Journals
• Writing Conference Proposals

Email Elizabeth Greef at greef@optusnet.com.au to suggest future topics and improvements on existing ones.

Updated 15 Sept. 2020