Open AccessGreat Piles of Stuff or Piles of Great Stuff? Entrepreneurial Curation and the School Librarian
Author(s) -
Marcia A. Mardis
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
school libraries worldwide
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2816-3788
pISSN - 1023-9391
DOI - 10.29173/slw6874
Subject(s) - promotion (chess) , context (archaeology) , resource (disambiguation) , theme (computing) , selection (genetic algorithm) , quality (philosophy) , educational resources , information literacy , library science , computer science , world wide web , sociology , public relations , knowledge management , political science , pedagogy , history , computer network , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , artificial intelligence , politics , law
The theme of this issue, "Curation: Building the Learning Resource Base through Selection, Management, and Promotion of School Library Collections,"was prompted by the fact that K-12 instructional planning is changing -- and continues to change very quickly. Whereas teachers were once left to their own devices, and hopefully to their school librarians, to identify and integrate high quality learning resources, the recent past of federal educational initiatives has transformed instructional materials selection from one based on "pull" (i.e., resources gained from colleagues, search engines, and specialized digital libraries) to one based on "push"(e.g., resources presented to teachers in the context of a standards and assessment linked student data systems or a digital library).