Revised: Limitless Library By Heather Hendry

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  1. limitless library.
  2. Yeah.
  3. What impact could a limitless library partnership
  4. have on a rural library learning commons.
  5. First, what's a limitless library?
  6. It all began with a big idea in Nashville
  7. give students easy access to the
  8. best educational resources and learning materials.
  9. A collaboration between schools and public libraries.
  10. Imagine
  11. an idea that allows the public and school
  12. libraries to collaborate in support of our students
  13. regardless of their postal code and social challenges.
  14. The Nashville public and metropolitan Nashville
  15. public schools equals a limitless library.
  16. There are limitless library served over 90,000 students.
  17. Teachers and Librarians,
  18. 42% of students fooled said that limitless
  19. libraries have improved their reading skills.
  20. 80% of teachers surveyed these
  21. limitless libraries to support classroom instruction
  22. collaboration,
  23. resource sharing.
  24. Leading learning encourages literacy partners such as library
  25. poppers such as public libraries and librarians.
  26. So by providing access to high quality books
  27. on my learning resources and other learning materials,
  28. we can complement an existing library learning comments.
  29. So I started thinking
  30. is this possible in my rural town of Tofino Bc?
  31. The answer is yes. Our community library could embody this idea.
  32. Why can't our public library shared resources with our school library.
  33. We would need employees within the public library
  34. to champion the program from the inside out.
  35. Our school library system doesn't even allow students to check out books.
  36. Our community library is only open limited hours and days each week.
  37. So the idea of a new library learning commons feels very far away.
  38. But as a regional system,
  39. the Vancouver Island Regional Library has 39 branches
  40. that spread between Soup and Haida Gwai.
  41. So it's a floating collection ensuring equity equity of access.
  42. And this floating collection would be accessible 24/7 to our students
  43. who right now have no access really to any major library.
  44. So as a teacher I depend on this floating
  45. collection and envision a day my students do too.
  46. So it could collaborate with a library learning
  47. comments through shared programs contest so much more,
  48. it delivers resources directly to schools,
  49. which is a huge huge bonus for a small community.
  50. Um myself,
  51. I have books arriving weekly that are being spread throughout our regional system
  52. so empower students with a library card that they can
  53. also um that is also their student ID card.
  54. So it's available 24 7 through online access which connects students on pro d.
  55. Days and holidays and summer,
  56. which is a huge bonus in our community where
  57. there is limited programming available for our students.
  58. So important during times of uncertainty such as community closures
  59. due to covid. Right now we're experiencing um yet again some uncertainty.
  60. Um
  61. and it just allows access right now we don't have any access for our students.
  62. So this floating collection through a limitless library would be like key
  63. to their continue learning and their um yeah just access to information.
  64. So public libraries have the funding as schools have the captive audience.
  65. So can you also envision limitless library in support of your students