1. Creation of Online Materials
CHARA GILL
LEM 511
TECHNOLOGY FOR THE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN
BY WILLIAM O. SCHEEREN
2. Types of Online Material Created
Online materials is divided into 2 categories
Content- An area of general information, relatively
easy to create
Librarian Created Interactive Materials- “digital
archives” such as a database of digitized historical
photographs
3. Categories of Online Material
Electronic Reference Assistance
Online Request Forms
Interactive Services
Interlibrary Loan
Request For A Book Hold
Library Reservations
Assistance To Teachers w/Instructional
Design
Multimedia Booking
5. A New Paradigm For Library Orientation
Electronic Reference Assistant
Interlibrary Loan
Description of the Library
Description of Displays in the Library
Information About the Copy Machine
6. A New Paradigm for Library
Reference Material- beyond encyclopedias
Periodicals- Popular magazines
Microforms- Old files
Equipment- Borrow a picture
7. More Online Materials
o Basic Homepage Components
o Library Hours
o Employee Listing
o Library Calendar
o Mission Statement and Policies
o Webmaster Contact Information
8. Glossary of Terms
1. Periodicals- Magazines in the collection
2. Reference Material- dictionaries or encyclopedias that help you find
information
3. Interactive- Activity that occurs at the click of a mouse
4. Mission- A statement of belief that drives the library
5. Homepage- School library website
6. Links- Guide the browser from site to site
7. Microfishe- Microforms and Microfische
8. Online Request Form- Helps with reserving equipment
9. Power Library- A collection of databases
10. Online Reference Assistant- Helps respnd to student/teacher
questions promptly
9. Responses to Questions
Question #1
Compare and contrast librarian created online materials with those on the Internet
Content vs. Librarian Created Materials
Content material is developed by library media specialists. It
includes:
General information
It’s easy to read
Can be created in a Word Document
Can be uploaded easily into a web page
School Librarian created material includes:
Digital archives
Databases
Interactive components
Require Expertise
10. Questions Continued
Question #2
Plan to Liven Up School Webpage:
In an effort to liven up our school webpage I would make the following
suggestions to our PTO. After speaking with the library committee and the
technology team for Bush Hills Academy we have decided to revamp our
school website. The following items will be coming to our homepage
soon…
Story of the week
Parent Suggestion Box
Kids Contents- shows how the can interact with others around the
world
Teacher of the year
Hot Book List & New Book List
Parent Volunteer Information
11. Summary
This was a very interesting chapter. As a school
librarian it gave me additional information on the
types of resources that we use. For example, school-
library created resources versus content material.
Also, This chapter discussed digital archives and
interactive material as well as teacher created
information