Learning+Commons

=New York State School Library Program Rubric (SLMPE)=

The School Learning Commons Knowledge Building Center


>> • Includes usable surveys, sample newsletters and library reports, research paper formatting guides, and a highly useful website >> • 38 figures and photographs of actual resources, user-centered design, students utilizing resources, and web design >> • Index facilitates quick reference to specific examples on demand >> **Highlights** >> • This text provides a roadmap any librarian can follow to adapt their facility to the emerging and increasingly popular learning commons library paradigm >> • Provides documented, valid information and practical suggestions presented with a dash of humor, unlike most texts on librarianship
 * Pamela Colburn Harland. //The Learning Commons: Seven Steps to Transform Your Library//. Libraries Unlimited, 2011.
 * This simple guide provides valuable insights for transforming an out-of-date public, school, or academic library into a thriving, user-centric learning commons
 * David V. Loertscher, Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwaan; //**The New Learning Commons Where Learners Win! Reinventing School Libraries and Computer Labs**// ISBN: 978-1-933170-40-4; Hi Willow Research and Publishing; 2008; $25.00 (available at: http://lmcsource.com)

Carol Koechlin, Esther Rosenfeld, and David V. Loertscher; Hi Willow Research and Publishing; ISBN: 978-1-933170-59-6; 2010; $30.00 (available at: [|http://lmcsource.com] ) A planning guide for administrators and those interested in establishing a Learning Commons that reinvents the role of the school library and computer labs in the school.
 * ** Building a Learning Commons **

Nancy Keane, Rundlett Middle School, Concord, NH
Changes due to student responses:

Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/booktalker/sets/72157625698205550/

Rundlett Middle School LibGuides @http://rundlett.concord.nh.libguides.com/index.php

Library Helpers Club: more student input and student created multimedia. @http://rundlett.concord.nh.libguides.com/libraryhelpers

= From Library to Learning Commons video: Imagine your Library, Anita Brooks Kirkland = @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0F0vR4WGIg&feature=youtu.be

= Your "To-Do" List! = From //The Learning Commons: Seven Simple Steps to Transform Your Library// by Pamela Colburn Harland. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2011.