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*Why and How to Use This Group
This 3.5 minutes video will show you more about why and how to use this group.
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Hands-On: Customizable PowerPoint to Promote ELM and Your Media Center
Please use this PowerPoint in full or part when promoting your media center. There is no need to mention or credit Minitex for these slides or in reference to ELM. Using the databases is more important than knowing what office makes them available.
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Hands-On: Encyclopedia Britannica Activities
Want to get to know the Encyclopedia Britannica? Want your teachers to get to know it? Use the eight activity questions in this document to help teachers or students learn what's available in this database. Feel free to edit and re-purpose.
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Hands-On: Points of View Reference Center Activities
Want to get to know the Points of View Reference Center better? Want your teachers to get to know it? Use the eight activity questions in this document to help teachers or students learn what's available in this database. Feel free to edit and re-purpose.
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Hands-On: Student Research Center Activities
Want to get to know the Student Research Center? Want your teachers to get to know it? Use the eight activity questions in this document to help teachers or students learn what's available in this database. Feel free to edit and re-purpose.
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Promo Idea: Eden Prairie Library By the Numbers Lobby Display
This lobby display promotes the use of the EP public library in a very attainable way. An idea worth borrowing! (Thanks for the lead, Jeanne!)
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Promo Idea: Read Posters
Good idea: Make your own “Read” posters to promote your media center and reach out to students.
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Report: Haves, Halves, and Have-Nots: School Libraries and Student Achievem
A lengthy dissertation from a U of North Texas researcher confirms the correlation between media centers and student achievement. See the list of tables for good access points to this large report.
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Report: List of Advocacy Resources
List of reports showing the benefit of school library media centers to schools.
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Standards: MN Academic Standards
"To find the K-12 Minnesota Academic Standards for language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and the arts, choose a subject from the links at right."
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Standards: MN Standards for Effective School Library Media Programs
"Professional standards are proposed for local application so that individual institutions can see where they are, decide where they want to improve, and measure their progress."
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Tool: Advocacy and Promotion for the School Library Media Specialist
This site includes how-to information, examples, and support tools to help brainstorm, blueprint, and implement PR, advertising, and marketing campaigns for your media center.
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Tool: American Association of School Librarians Toolkits
This collection of outreach tools from the AASL includes:
Crisis Toolkit;
School Library Media Program Health and Wellness Toolkit;
Advocacy Toolkit;
Instructional Classification Toolkit;
@ your library Toolkit for School Library Media Programs
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Tool: Open Clip Art Library
Use these copyright-free images to liven up promotional materials.
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Tool: Trading Card Maker
Use this free online tool to make fun trading cards out of digital photos to help promote you and your library.
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