We know a lot of our members are providing in-person, hybrid, and online services – and there will be a need for increased online library services for quite a while now. And really: always having some online service will be good, to be sure we are ready to meet the needs of all members of the community.
So we are going to pass on some tips with an excerpt from this article: Best Remote Learning Practices for Librarians. You can click that link to get the entire article, with all the information!
“While the trials of educators thrust suddenly into remote teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been widely examined, less frequently discussed is how librarians are navigating a similar elearning path.
If the classroom is closed, so is the school library. How do students access the wealth of learning resources within when they can’t step across the library threshold? Until the pandemic abates, there’s only one answer. Libraries must make the digital leap to provide essential literary, research, and learning assets to all students.
The following steps serve as a guide for librarians and library administrators to manage their libraries as fully digital learning resources.
- 1. Develop a Welcoming Online Climate
- 2. Plan & Teach Collaboratively
- 3. Promote Information Fluency Curriculum
- 4. Align Collection to Curriculum and Student Needs
- 5. Teach the Technology
- 6. Promote Access
- 7. Maintain Resources and Technology
- 8. Communicate with Colleagues
- 9. Manage Funding
- 10. Keep Current [the suggestions in this one are from New York; just adapt these to your own state!]
You can read the full article, with all the descriptions and suggestions under each of these items, right here!