1. Garden Song by David Mallett Inch by inch, row by row
Gonna make this garden grow
All it takes is a rake and a hoe
And a piece of fertile ground
Someone bless these seeds I sow
Someone warm them from below
'Till the rain comes tumbling down.
Pulling weeds and pickin' stones;
We are made of dreams and bones
I feel the need to grow my own,
'Cause the time is close at hand.
Grain for grain, sun and rain,
Find my way in nature's chain
Tune my body and my brain,
To the music from the land.
Plant your rows straight and long,
Temper them with a prayer and song.
Mother Earth will make you strong
If you give her love and care.
An old crow watching hungrily
From his perch in yonder tree.
And in my garden I'm as free
As that feathered thief up there.
©Cherry Lane Music Co (ASCAP)
Used by special permission of David Mallett
Special thanks to Linda Bolton
Northern Lights Management

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3. “Gonna make this garden grow”
Planting the seeds for
Virtual Library Version 2.0
Creating 21st century learning landscapes
“Garden Song” used with permission
of David Mallett

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Listen and think about what resources you will want to explore later.
It defies the rules for good presentation
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5. Our students are our students 24/7.
A paradigm . . .
This is the first time in history that the student, teacher, the librarian, and the content don’t have to be in the same place at the same time for learning to occur.
Our students are our students 24/7.

6. This is also:
The most exciting (and the most challenging) time ever, to be a librarian!
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7. About our students . . .:
They might be gurus
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8. The popular literature
Donald Tapscott Growing up Digital
The net generation is “more comfortable, knowledgeable, and literate than their parents about an innovation central to society”
This generation is “the best-informed, most active generation ever” (p. 281). In Tapscott’s generation lap, children are authorities, lapping adults in all areas involving technology.
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9. Digital natives vs. digital immigrants
Natives work at twitch speed. Today’s student has had “far more experience at processing information more quickly than its predecessors, and is therefore better at it.”
Prensky, M. (1998). Twich speed: Keeping up with young workers. Retrieved on October 15, 2004 from
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10. But, what are they really better at?
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11. Generation IM 94% of online youth use the Internet for school research
18% of online teens say they know of someone who has used the Internet to cheat on a paper or test.
Lenhart, A. (2004). Family, Friends & Community: Teens, Students, Parents and Internet Technology: The Findings of Pew Internet Project. Lawlor Group Summer Seminar, Minneapolis, MN.
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12. Slacker culture? Pew Study
“The Internet is a way to complete their schoolwork as quickly and painlessly as possible, with minimal effort and minimal engagement.”
One student said he was "still searching for a site where you can find your textbooks and answer your questions from the homework.”
Levin, D., Arafeh, S., Lenhart, A., & Rainie, L. (2002). The digital disconnect: The widening gap between internet-savvy students and their schools. Pew Internet & American Life Project Retrieved Sept. 30, 2004, 2004, from
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13. Pew: Internet Goes to College
Almost every student that was observed checked his or her while in the computer labs, but very few were observed surfing university-based or library Web sites.
Those students who were using the computer lab to do academic-related work made use of commercial search engines rather than university and library Web sites.
Jones, S., & Madden, M. (2002). The Internet Goes to College: How students are living in the future with today's technology: Pew Internet & American Life Project. Retrieved September 20, 2004 from
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14. Research reveals significant problems
Designing effective search strategies / Representing information needs, generating search terms
Identifying searchable topics and questions
Overlooking databases
Mismatches between students’ ideas and how information is actually organized
Mastering different terminology, commands, and verbal signals across databases
Obtaining hard copy—understanding that not everything is instantly digitally available
Judging relevance and authority
Repetition of flawed strategies
Satisficing, Principle of least resistance
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15. The kids and teachers are packed and ready to go.
Learners need signage
They may think they know where to start, but may be largely unaware of the options
We may need to change the way we teach and communicate with learners!
It is our job to develop 21st century learning landscapes

16. “You’re either on or off the bus . . .”
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17. 21st Century Learners Need:
21st Century teachers
21st Century librarians
21st Century learning landscapes
21st Century projects (we have amazing tools!)
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18. 21st Century Learners Need:
Independence
Intervention
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19. Two solutions: Make users smarter Make systems smarter 11/16/2018
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20. Making systems smarter
I can do
better!
Users are most successful when interacting with systems designed for them
Standardized terminology, better directions, context-sensitive program supports, customized resources
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21. School library sites are different!
We know our learners (intimately)
We know how our teachers teach
We collaborate on the instruction
We know the full scope of our resources
Our sites can be customized directly to meet specific groups of users!
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22. Why create it for students?
Extends and scales service and instruction
Promotes a wide and balanced range of relevant, quality resources
Students’ self-efficacy may discourage their exploration
Moves students from reliance on one favorite search engine
Eliminates frustration
Focuses research and maximizes student use of time to higher-level tasks
Independence AND intervention
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23. The big reason:
Your website is the virtual translation of your program.
It is where you can translate your Information Powers online.

24. Today’s school library has two front doors
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25. Library website as school culture
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27. Who are your users? Students—home, school, homeschooled? Teachers?
Parents? School community?
Faculty and staff?
Outsiders?
Librarians? (Yourself?)

28. Philosophy is critical
"A library website should be no different than a fixed library facility, a clean well-lighted place filled with services and information for library users"
Eric S. Anderson in HTMLW: How to Manage the Library Website
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29. Roles and Responsibilities of the School Library Media Specialist
Learning and teaching
Information access and delivery
Program administration
American Library Association and Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. Chicago: ALA, 1998.

30. Big questions:
Can a school library’s online presence go beyond the virtual collection of links and databases, often described as a “digital library”?
Is a school’s virtual library the next logical iteration of a teacher librarian’s professional practice?
If the mission of the school library is to “ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information,” should that not also translate to a school library media program’s virtual presence?

31. Program Administration
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32. Mission and Goals
The mission of the library media program is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. This mission is accomplished:
by providing intellectual and physical access to materials in all formats
by providing instruction to foster competence and stimulate interest in reading, viewing, and using information and ideas
by working with other educators to design learning strategies to meet the needs of individual students.
American Library Association and Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. Chicago: ALA, 1998

33. Mission Statements
Eduscapes (Annette Lamb)
Australian School Library Association
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34. Translating Program Administration
Springfield
Policies
Newsletters and Annual Reports
Lakeview
Forms
Annual Report
Palmerston Policies and Procedures
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35. Learning and Teaching
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36. What the landscape looks like online
Pathfinders
Style sheets
Websites
Guides to research
St. Joseph’s Assignments
Meeting students where they live!
What the kids think—Importance of our Websites
Archiving the research work of the school
Database access
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37. Learning and teaching http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/jvles.html
Research Guide
Orientation scavenger hunt
WebQuests: World War II Scrapbook
Handouts: Question Brainstormer
PowerPoints: Web evaluation, Searching 501, Scholarly vs. Trade vs. Popular
Search tools
Information literacy
MLA, APA
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38. Online lessons archived
Knowledge management?
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39. Research Guidance
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40. Shifting the project But the medium is not necessarily the MESSAGE!
Annotated works cited, pathfinder
Create a blog arguing against school uniforms and linking to the most important research
Create a wiki for your group collecting your knowledge around pollution in our town, our town’s history
Produce a video commercial for your lit circle book
Plan a debate on banned books with another class in (threaded discussion, wikis, Internet2)
Choose your own medium of expression
But the medium is not necessarily the MESSAGE!
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41. Information skills Subject directories Search engines
Which ones, when? Second generation?
Gateways/Invisible Web
Boolean
Phrase (“John Quincy Adams” “vitamin A”)
Determining whether the Web is the right place to start
Baltimore County Public Schools

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43. Palmerston on information literacy
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44. Stuff for teachers http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/tealinks.html
GEM Database
Blue Web’n
Standards
Rubric resources
Graphic Organizers/Scaffolds
Educational research
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45. Information Access and Delivery
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46. About schema
Visualizing the choices—students rely on graphic cues and organizational devices to picture the options
Categories and buckets—school examples
Carthage High School
New Trier High School
UNI High School
Dewey Browse
Springfield Township
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47. Design issues for librarians to consider
Categorization—in user language
Compensations for limited vocabularies
Graphic visualizations
Augmented links, pop-ups
Using the real estate of the first screen
CONSCIOUSNESS OF AUDIENCE!
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48. Importance of databases as equity

49. Students on databases JV: Why do you like the databases?
A: Because they really give you good essays and good material. Like you’re not getting little flimsy thingies from Google, you’re getting good solid essays about.
JV: So databases seem to be like the primary value?
All: Yes. (Heads nodding in agreement) (Group 1)
JV: What features of the library website do you value the most?
A: Catalogs and Databases. (Yes, all, laughter)
JV: It seems like that’s a value for everyone?
All: Yeah. (All responding at the same time) GaleNet—yes, GaleNet! EBCOhost, I like e-library. e-library is the best for Global.
JV: It’s interesting to see that it is such consensus over the databases. Why is that, do you think?
A: Cause they have everything. It links you to the whole world.
A: There’s a database for everything. Like if you need newspaper articles, there’s one for that. If you need like scholarly sources, there’s one for that too. If you need like pictures or reviews, there’s stuff for them too. (Group 2)
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51. Interlibrary loan
Access PA—Statewide Library Catalog for Interlibrary Loan!
MCLINC (Public Libraries in Montgomery County)
Free Library of Springfield Township
Alexandria Patron Catalog: Check out our library holdings wherever you are!
Atwood Library of Arcadia College
Chestnut Hill College Logue Library
Alexandria Middle School Catalog
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52. Pathfinders as 21st Century learning landscapes
Around since the 70s to help library users navigate resources
Establishes a plan of action--clears a path through the forest
Now Web-based and even more necessary!
Sharable 24/7 --for the good of all Web-users and information seekers!
Scalable—makes teachers’ and librarians’ advice vastly available
Models selection, evaluation, strategies, and balance!
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53. Pathfinders http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/pathmenu.html
A question from Marjorie Pappas
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54. Pathfinders for all your major projects
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55. Best Practice! Pathfinder Models and Examples
Multnomah Homework Center - Social Issues
Internet Public Library- Pathfinders
Author Pathfinder IPL
Camden County Library System
50 States Pathfinder
Lewis and Clark Pathfinder
Black History
Indianapolis Marion County Public Library
Canadian Art Pathfinder
Community High School, District 94
History Pathfinder Canada
SKC School Cyber Themes
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56. On Designing Pathfinders
Designing Pathfinders for Children and Young Adults (Annette Lamb)
Wenatchee’s Pathfinder for Creating Pathfinders
Vandergrift’s Pathfinder
Springfield Template
Trackstar
Trackpack
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57. New varieties for the 21st Century garden?
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58. What’s coming down the road
Streaming Media
Open Source
Internet2
Web 2 / The Read / Write Web
E-book collections
Netlibrary, Gale Virtual Reference, International Children’s Digital Library
NetTrekker and searches of that sort
Wikibooks?

59. Blogs Web logs Text, images, video, podcasting
Usually a calendar type arrangement
Can be viewed either by the general public or select groups
IASL Weblogs and School Libraries
Peter Scott’s List of School Library Blogs
Hunterdon Central
NHM Library (Lounge Lizard of the Week)
UNI Book Blog
Neverending Search
Edublog Awards

60. Something Wiki this way comes
Free service designed to facilitate communication and collaboration among members of an organization or community
Anyone may edit
Dynamic
What about Wikipedia?
On the London bombings
What types of wikis will you put in your collection?

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63. Emerging features UNI’s Site and Blog http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/library/
Pacific Middle School Book Blog
Lawrence HS’s posters and promotion, reports
Greece Athena reference
Community High School Pathfinders and Posters
Whippany Park High School
Hunterdon Central IMC
Peter Scott’s School Library Blogs

64. Other emerging features
Open source resources
Streaming media
Copyright friendly images
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65. Where to find great sites
Librarians’ Index to the Internet
Internet Public Library
Multnomah Homework Center
StartSpot Network

66. Leading ‘em back to the books

67. Lead them to reading . . . Your own list?
ALA lists? Newbery, Caldecott, YALSA, etc.
Children’s Literature Web Guide
Reading Rants?
Guys Read?
Grouchy Café: Teenage Angst Books
Teen Reads
Database of Award Winning Children’s Literature
Cool Reads (10-15 year-olds)
Accelerated Reader?
Links to reviews? Student reviews?
Ann Arbor District World of Books
Palmerston Book Look
Community High New Books
International Children’s Digital Library

68. Stuff for librarians

69. Pullin’ weeds, pickin’ stones
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70. Free tools to make planting easier
NVu
Edublogs
Learnblogs
PB Wiki
Trackstar /Trackpack
QuestGaden 1.0
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71. Finding clipart, goodies, etc.
Copyright Friendly Images
Classroom clip art
Discovery Channel School clip Art
Web Pasties
FreeFind (free search engine)
Bravenet (Web tools for Web masters)
HTML Goodies
Web Monkey (advice for Web developers)

72. Counters? Why? Extreme Tracker: http://www.extreme-dm.com/
GoStats:

73. Your Web use stats—easy!
Extreme Tracker
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74. Design Issues
Don’t bury content--no more than one, maybe two, clicks away from the good stuff
Main pages should be non-scroll—use screen real estate wisely!
Intuitive links—call ‘em what they are, what the kids think they are!
Ask the critics! Test the design
Organize your page like a good book, magazine or newspaper

75. Weeding Weeding is not my specialty :-( Never was in the print world
Software can help
LinkAlarm
Alert LinkRunner
NetMechanic
Xenu’s Link Sleuth
Dr. Watson (free)
Get the kids involved
Substitutes too!

76. Keeping Up: Web Sites
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Librarians’ Index to the Internet Mailing List
Scout Report
Kathy Schrock’s New Sites
Gary Price’s Resource Shelf

77. Keeping Up Search Tools (cont’d)
Search Engine Watch
Neat New Stuff on the Net
Research Buzz
Steven Bell’s Keeping Up Page
Pandia
New! Google Newsletter for Librarians

78. “Find my way in nature's chain” Let’s examine best practice in Virtual Libraries Visiting other people’s gardens

79. Touring our gardens Examining examples of “best practice”

80. Models for inspiration
IASL/Concord Award
Ann Clyde’s Resources
State of the Art
Peter Milbury’s School Libraries.net
Linda Bertland’s School Libraries on the Web
Eduscapes: Information Architecture for the Web

81. Suggestions: Get help from someone experienced
Advocate for control? Secede?
View others’ sites
Create a map & refine
Start small – start with the important!
Personalize--use original art and photographs!

82. Examples of school library site best practice on all levels
WebQuest on school library websites
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88. Please take cuttings from my garden
if you are going to start your own

89. What the kids say:
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90. “Mother Earth will make you strong If you give her love and care.”
The work is hard.
You are never “done.”
The rewards are impressive!
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91. It is time to replant or reseed your garden
It is time to replant or reseed your garden! It is time to translate your program!
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92. 21st Century Learners Need:
21st Century teachers
21st Century librarians
21st Century learning landscapes
21st Century projects (we have amazing tools!)
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93. Contact information:
Springfield Township HS Virtual Library
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94. Garden Song by David Mallett Inch by inch, row by row
Gonna make this garden grow
All it takes is a rake and a hoe
And a piece of fertile ground
Someone bless these seeds I sow
Someone warm them from below
'Till the rain comes tumbling down.
Pulling weeds and pickin' stones;
We are made of dreams and bones
I feel the need to grow my own,
'Cause the time is close at hand.
Grain for grain, sun and rain,
Find my way in nature's chain
Tune my body and my brain,
To the music from the land.
Plant your rows straight and long,
Temper them with a prayer and song.
Mother Earth will make you strong
If you give her love and care.
An old crow watching hungrily
From his perch in yonder tree.
And in my garden I'm as free
As that feathered thief up there.
©Cherry Lane Music Co (ASCAP)
Used by special permission of David Mallett
Special thanks to Linda Bolton
Northern Lights Management

95. Sharing my research If we have time!
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96. Focus Group Study results
User feedback:
What the students told me about improvements
Password list
Databases by subject
Mouseovers
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97. Focus group results
“In each of the four groups, the favorite or most used area of the site was Catalogs and Databases, where students had access to subscription databases, the OPAC, and the catalogs of other libraries for interlibrary loan. Students described their favorite databases as if they were fans, as they might describe their favorite actors or musicians. ‘I love GaleNet.’ ‘I am obsessed with ABC-CLIO.’ When students suggested site improvements, their improvements focused heavily on improving their access to databases.”
Valenza, Pilot study for dissertation.
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98. Results of Web-based Survey
14 Sites identified as best practice
1257 high school seniors
Influence of school culture?
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99. Schools Describe the value of the library website to your
high school homework and research
100%
80%
Couldn’t live without it!
Very important
Important
Somewhat important
Not important
Never use it
60%
40%
20%
Schools
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100. The website contributed to my understanding of:
Frequency
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106. In your own words, describe the influence of the school library site to your high school studies.
Responses most heavily fell into the following themes:
Satisfaction and learning with resource
Learning about new search engines
Help with documentation
Use improved grades
Grateful teachers reminded them to use
Negatives—Google works better, “I don’t need help.”
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107. Describe a successful experience you’ve had using the school library website?
Student responses fell into several themes:
Documentation help
Value of databases
Relationship between use of the site and grades / Importance of the site to their projects
Help with selecting quality and evaluation
Their teachers’ endorsements of the site
Success with finding books locally and interlibrary loan
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108. To which subscription databases has the library introduced you?
Number of student mentions of databases
EBSCO 211
SIRS (ProQuest) 168
ProQuest 116
elibrary 112
CQ Researcher
Facts.com 76
LexisNexis 72
InfoTrac (Gale) 60
WilsonWeb 58
Opposing Viewpoints
World & I 27
Student Resource Ctr
First Search
nettrekker 13
Lit. Resource Ctr-Gale 9
Britannica
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109. Web-based Survey Conclusions
Students
Significant difference in data across schools
Overall positive in access to the documentation help, the OPAC, catalog, search tools, databases and college search links
Students in some schools clearly value the websites, in others, the level of acceptance is generally positive but moderate
Effective virtual libraries are likely hybrid experiences, enhancing face-to-face instruction, supported by whole-school programs
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110. Issue? Website is part of the larger story.
Difficult to separate from school culture that values high quality resources and is dependent on the site
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111. Questions for further study
Why are some library websites far more important to students than others?
What role does school culture play in the acceptance of library websites?
How do librarians promote site use and acceptance into school culture?
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