Recharge Your Library Programs with Pop Culture and Technology:: Connect with Today's Teens - Softcover

Behen, Linda D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610693698 ISBN 13: 9781610693691

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2013

Synopsis

Learn how to integrate pop culture and technology into school library programs and classrooms, and make today's digital content, mobile devices, and students' changing interests work to the educator's advantage.
Today's school libraries need to evolve and meet the needs of 21st-century students ― the instruction, programming, and library services must be relevant to today's learners. Additionally, the interactions between educators and the students are what make the critical difference in the students' learning, and turn the library and classroom into places where they will find, assimilate, experience, and understand information. This book provides practical strategies for using pop culture and technology trends to connect with easily distracted middle and high school students and hold their attention.

Author Linda D. Behen addresses why school libraries are in transition and why there is a need for dramatic change. She discusses the evolution of all libraries in response to digital content; ubiquitous mobile devices such as smart phones, iPads, and other tablet computers; patrons' changing interests; and the ways in which schools and school libraries have found to effectively adapt to technology changes and student needs. This book is essential for middle and high school librarians and educators, library school students and instructors, and young adult public librarians.

About this title

About the Author

Linda D. Behen, MLS, has been a school librarian for 17 years, most currently at Mother of Mercy High School in Cincinnati, OH.

Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610693698
• ISBN 13: 9781610693691
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192