Resources

Past Conferences and Links
2012 IASL Conference Wiki

Professional Development
Kathy Kaldenberg, Professional Development/Conference Chair
Do you have comments or questions about upcoming events? Please get in touch!

State of Iowa School Library Page

Iowa Department of Education, School Libraries -Including Iowa School Library Program Guidelines, Information Literacy Curriculum, Documents, and Data from the Statewide School Library Survey.

Tools from the ALA and the AASL
AASL Affiliate Assembly Report From Jean Donham, January 2013

State of America's Libraries, 2012

AASL ECollab

The American Association of School Librarians

American Association of School Librarian Lesson Plans

Best Web Sites for Teaching from the AASL

Ideas and Tools from Librarians Around the State
AEA Contacts

List of School Library Web Sites

School Libraries that Use Google Sites (Images Via SQWORL)
    Sites that Use Google Sites (No Images, but Links)

Iowa Public Library Directory

Evaluation Guide for Teacher Librarians at the University of Iowa

Book Trailers - Site at Allamakee that has links to different types of book trailers.

Lodgson's Book Talk PDF from the IASL - ICPL librarian Kara Lodgson gave a great talk at the IASL conference on these books - here is the PDF.

Iowa City West High 9th Grade Research Symposium Project

SE Polk Focus on Culture

Hunger Games Activity at UNI

Kathy Kaldenberg on Pinterest - Solon

Marshalltown High Book of the Day Blog

Useful Tools
Template for School Library Web Page - Model template for Google Site page for libraries.

Appitic - List of Apps for Schools.

View Pure - See Videos without going on-line.

Zamzar - File Conversion.

Fur.ly - Shorten Multiple URLs into one.

Thing Link - Create links in anything to other URLs.

Fict Fact Series Finder - This site lets you track series fiction for your library.

Resources for Understanding the Common Core

School Library Policies
Academic Integrity
     Iowa City West High Academic Honor (See below)
     Avoiding Plagiarism - OWL from Purdue

Collection
     Missouri Dept. of Education / Planning
     Resource Alignment Karen Lowe homepage

Internet Acceptable Use
     Iowa City West High Photo-Internet Opt Out (See below)
     Iowa City District Technology Resources and Use (See below)
     Education World - Getting Started on an AUP

Selection
     Iowa examples of Selection and Reconsideration Policies (See below)
     Other Resources
     Doug Johnson - Integrating Technology

Assessment
     SLIM - School Library Impact - Handbook as mentioned in Carol Kuhlthau's book, "Guided Inquiry", 2007.
     SLIM Questionnaire

Weeding
     Weeding the Collection - Iowa Department of Ed, 1994

Other Resources
     Library Bill of Rights from ALA / Diversity of Collection - Interpretation of Library Bill of Rights
     School Library Mission Statements
     Students Right to Read from NCTE
     Copyright Notice (See below)



Teacher Librarian Task Force - Iowa Code Amendments in Effect July 11, 2007

     

Sample Information Literacy Curriculum

     Click here for IA City West High Academic Honor Code 08-09

     Click here for Iowa City West High Photo-Internet Opt Out

     Click here for Iowa City District Technology Resources and Use

     Click here to download Copyright Notice

     Click here to download Selection-Reconsideration Policy

     Click here for Sample Information Literacy Curriculum

Thanks to Mary Jo Langhorne for sharing the Selection/Reconsideration policy information for this site. A committee chaired by Mary Cameron, DE, along with Mary Jo Langhorne, Denise Rehmke and Kristin Steingreaber continued work on policies during the summer of 2008.

Past Issues of the IASL Journal

On-line Through Google Docs - 

     Feb 2010

     May 2010

     Fall 2010

IEMA archive - The IASL Archive is located with the Iowa Library Association Archive at the University of Iowa libraries. The former association, IEMA, archive remains at the University of Northern Iowa library.