Librarians from Washington State gave an overview of their program, "Connecting Learners to Libraries," and offered tips to increase public and school collaboration for the benefit of students.
Their program funded collaborative projects to promote information literacy and life-long learning projects. Ninety mini-grants were distributed and some of the projects included: information literacy, database/catalog training, collection development, reading programs, homework help, and more.
Tips for all librarians to increase public library and school collaboration
-regular communication
-cross promote: newsletters, blogs, visits, etc
-select a liaison: one from your library and one from your contact school
-topics of interest: identify topics of interest and promote with booklists, brochures, displays, etc.
All of us have been in the position of not having enough information for a school assignment and we say to ourselves, "Why didn't the teacher call before giving the assignment?"
Perhaps we need to follow some of the tips above and get to know our education partners before assignments are given out.
Comments welcome!
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