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Title: Toward a Learning Commons: Where Learners Are Central (Feature ARTICLE)
Author : Teacher Librarian
Release Date : January 01, 2011
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 295 KB

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We began the switch from a legacy-model library to a learning commons in 2006. We were faced with students, faculty, and administrators who asked the question: why does our school need a library if we have access to so much information from our classrooms via the Internet? We had been in the time-honored mode of preserving the library resources and enforcing the library policies for decades. We preserved the school archives, the reference collection, and those feelings of preservation naturally extended to other resources like popular fiction, newspapers, and even glue sticks. We enforced the library rules and policies that had been in place forever, because they worked. We believed we were teaching students to be responsible members of society by limiting the number of books they could check out.