Credential
Connection
Newsletter
Fall
2002
December 1 Deadline for New MA Program Option: School
Librarianship
The Master
of Arts in Education, Option in School Librarianship is now officially approved.
This new option is slated to begin spring 2003; December 1 is the first
deadline for spring acceptance. Since a master’s degree program typically
extends to seven years of work, it is planned that current credential
candidates can apply for the master’s degree and fold in their ongoing units.
This degree option builds on the credential courses, adding a Foundations of
Information course, a research methods course, and a capstone seminar with
directed research. It is anticipated that the program will seek NCATE approval.
If interested, contact Dr. Farmer and the Program Web site: http://www.csulb.edu/lmt.
Does LMT = School Librarianship?
The new degree option is called School Librarianship. What
were some of the other possible names under consideration?
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Library Media Teacher, but that would be confused with the credential
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Library Media, but that could be confused with a technology program or imply
that the focus is on a product
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Library Science, but the focus is on schools, not a comprehensive program for
all types of librarianship.
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School Librarianship was the name chosen by the college because it was the
clearest.
Now some of the existing course
titles are being changed to more accurately reflect the content, and to align
with the credential and degree name. So:
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LI520 Basic Reference is now “Information Literacy and Reference Services”
*LI530A
now explicitly refers to grades K-5
*LI530B
now explicitly refers to grades 6-12.
The San
Fernando Valley may want to separate from Los Angeles, but CSULB continues to
link with the Valley. Judy Cohn has been teaching LI 540 Organization of
Information this fall, and will venture into technology next spring. Darla
Magana joined the lecturer force this fall in Long Beach, teaching a
separate section of LI 540. Dr. Farmer will teach the management course
next spring both face-to-face and online to address the needs of outlining
students. This fall Dr. Farmer met with Ventura County library staff to talk
about school librarian career ladders; she hopes to develop a cohort there.
State Library Standards
Dr.
Farmer headed the
Research Committee of the CSLA Task Force to develop state standards on school
library media programs and LMTs. This set of standards is being shared at the
CSLA conference. The draft is available from Dr. Farmer. Comments on the
standards should be sent to JoEllen Misakian at jmisakian@fresno.edu.
These standards can help in
evaluating LMTs and providing direction for school and district library media
programs.
November 13-16:
California School Library Assn. conference Sacramento
November 16-18:
California Library Assn. conference Sacramento
January 22-25, 2003
American Library Assn. conference Philadelphia
January/February:
Start of LI 550 Management by Dr. Farmer (face-to-face and online);
Start of LI 570 Technologies by Judy Cohn at Granada Hills HS
March 1:
Deadline for fall CSULB acceptance; fall credential and degree
candidacy
Welcome
to the newest LMT credential candidates: Dana Bart-Bell, Javier Cruz, Jacqelen Fondren, Byron Heiser, Jason Horton, Teresa Jacalone,
Wendy Lempke, Laura Mooney, Deborah Powers, Kathleen
Sheppard, Amy Smith, Roxann Strauss, and Karin Warzybok.
Finishing
their credentials in the last six months are Vida Bahremand,
Sandra Beerman, Rebecca Borges, Cheryl Driggs, Sanna Goins,
Susan Grady-Baranich, Barbara Halpern,
Sjan Jia, Richard Ma, Beth Matustik, Pam Quiros, Ellen Whelpton, and Aileen Willoughby.
Claudia Farmer was awarded the CSLA Leadership for Diversity Award.
Recent grad Shaun Lloyd was
featured in the September 2002 issue of California Educator.
Recent grad Diane Bennett is
a CSLA Good Ideas! Awardee.
The program’s Advisory Board is showing their mettle: new Board member Claudette McLinn was a Treasure Mountain scholar, which enabled her to participate, along with Dr. Farmer, in a national school librarianship research retreat. Susan Lawson will be serving a three-year term on CUE’s conference planning committee.
CSULB Rules CSLA
Conference
November’s CSLA conference is replete with CSULB-affiliated speakers:
* Dr. Farmer: Digital Instructional Design; State Standards; Libraries and Student Success
* Recent grad Helen Cox: Working with Vision
* Recent grad Rosemarie Bernier: Library Web Page
* Recent grad Molly Mailloux:
New Books
* Lecturer/Advisor Judy Hughes: Facilities
* Lecturer/Grad/Advisor Susan Lawson: MS Word
* Lecturer Shirley Weisman: Administation/LMT Partnerships; Instructional Collaboration
* Lecturer Sandy Schuckett: Legislation
* Supervising LMT Nina Jackson: Digital MS
* Supervising LMT Diane Oestreich: Literacy
* Supervising LMT Becky Johnston: College Connection
* Supervising LMT Steve Grant: Web for Research
Research on Emotional Maturity and Information Literacy Awarded
Dr. Farmer was awarded the
California Library Association Demco Research Award.
Her study investigates students’Rational-Emotive
Behavior and Information Literacy. The underlying hypothesis that is students’
emotive behavior and resilience impacts their ability to access, evaluate and
manipulate information. Dr. Farmer will be surveying 7th, 9th
and 11th graders about their attitudes and information literacy
competency. LMTs who want to participate in this study should contact her at
lfarmer@csulb.edu.
Leading in Literacy
Dr. Farmer has been invited to teach next summer at the University of Hawaii, and hopes to get one of their faculty to supervise field experience here at that time. Her seminar is entitled: “Literacies in the Digital Age.”
She has also been appointed as the Literacy Assembly Liaision for the American Library Association’s International Relations Round Table.
Info Lit: Videos and Web Update
The final (and introductory) episode of the seven-part series on information literacy and technology has been created, and is available for use. Dr. Farmer helped plan and act in the series, which has been introduced in several venues. Copies are available from KOCE-TV by sending a blank VHS videotape to Hall Davidson at KOCE-TV, 15751 Gothard Dr., Huntington Beach 92647. The accompanying Web site may be accessed at: http://www.csulb.edu/~lfarmer/ infolitwebstyle.htm. It features a streamed video version of the six steps.
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