The #TXLchat provides a forum for Texas librarians (but not limited to Texas librarians) to create collaborative connections, share educational resources, and foster life-long learning.
Hi Everyone! Kelly here. Academic librarian at West Texas A&M University. LOVE this topic. Participating in two chats tonight so I'll try to keep up. #txlchat#poweredlibraries
Becky, Dist Lib Coor, Leander ISD-I'm excited to connect, share & learn from everyone as we discuss Collaborative Partnerships! #txlchat#poweredlibraries
Q1: What are some goals/objectives/benefits of partnering with public and/or academic libraries or other outside organizations? #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A1 Discovering new trends in technology and library usage & identifying gaps between K-12 info literacy and higher ed info literacy skills. I also look for learning opportunities and opportunities to hone skills through outside organizations. 1 / 2 #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A1 When I worked as an elem librarian, I also took a lot of inspiration from the local public library’s story times--books, media, movement, etc. It led to some great kinder story times and activities. 2 / 2 #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A1 As a HS librarian, I partnered with WTAMU librarians asking them to speak to Ss about what to expect in the academic setting. This gave Ss the opportunity to ask ?? & reinforced what Ts had been telling Ss about the college exp #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A1: partnering with public libraries help my students realize that there are more places for resources other than at school. Some have never been taken to a library other than at school. #txlchat
A1 P2 - As an academic librarian, I've been a guest reader at elementary library reading celebrations. Euthusiam of Ss reinvigorates me and Ss get to see another type of librarian. #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A1: Community partnerships foster strong relationships that can open countless doors for Ss, parents and the community alike. Awareness, appreciation, action and growth. I love the partnerships our school has with our community! #txlchat#poweredlibraries#SMTX
A1: getting our kids what they need is a HUGE benefit of partnering with our public library. For academics, it's a focus on life after graduation, like academic research skills. #TXLchat
A1 P3 - As a HS librarian, partnered w/public youth services librarian to hold a Steampunk celebration. One thing that grew out of this was a collaborative article published in LMC. Also, Ss got to build a relationship w/public library/librarian #txlchat#poweredlibraries
Q1: What are some goals/objectives/benefits of partnering with public and/or academic libraries or other outside organizations? #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A1 As an elem TL, a long-term goal would be to help Ss ID and seek out other libraries after they leave my school. Short term, to benefit from great resources and services. #txlchat
Q2: What other organizations, including public and academic libraries have you partnered with to impact your students or community? #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A2 I’ve had a librarian from @houstonlibrary. I would love to get with someone from @UHoustonLib to visit the school and talk with students about skills needed to be successful in college. 1 / 2 #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A2 cont’d I also promote opportunities to learn coding beyond the Hour of Code, like @ChinguCollabs so students can see practical applications of coding. 2 / 2 #txlchat#poweredlibraries
Initially it was me reaching out promoting our public library makerspace (at @FreemanLib) within the local ISD to let them know their students had us as a new resource. The partnerships grew from there - classroom/district/region trainings, etc.
A1: As much as I love having my Ss at school, we are not the end game. We have to show them what is available outside of our doors. Knowing the programs at the public library and promoting helps our Ss in countless ways. #txlchat
A1.5: a goal of mine is to supplement my district's lack of library funding with collections, programming, and resources that I cannot provide.
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A2 I am VERY excited about an upcoming partnership with @urban15 for #Poetry Month. I'll give more details soon - but lots of great activities available to schools in SA and some available to ALL libraries. #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A1: As much as I love having my Ss at school, we are not the end game. We have to show them what is available outside of our doors. Knowing the programs at the public library and promoting helps our Ss in countless ways. #txlchat
A2: I invited our public library to come out to our family reading night. They came out with forms for families to sign up to get library cards. It was awesome! #txlchat
A1 we are better together! Serving your community is so important. We in #castleberryisd will be rolling out a summer stream bus (partnering w/ food service). Our public library is partnering #txlchat#cisd_reads
A2: We are lucky to have an amazing public library @HillsboroLib that offers homework help, library cards, a third place, #makerspace, clubs, and much more to my students, teachers, and community!
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A2 Our school district also has a partnership with @houstonlibrary, where all students have an account with that library & access too all resources. #txlchat
April, digital learning coach from Southeast Texas jumping in! A1: Making connections with the community at large, not just students and parents, is invaluable! #txlchat
Q1: What are some goals/objectives/benefits of partnering with public and/or academic libraries or other outside organizations? #txlchat#poweredlibraries
Q2: What other organizations, including public and academic libraries have you partnered with to impact your students or community? #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A2: We partnered with the Library of Congress and Smithsonian Libraries--took Art History students to D.C. to work in those libraries. They are still helping us remotely, too. #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A2: Museums are a great partner to have to meet the needs of our patrons. Used resources from Holocaust museum. Also presidential libraries are great resources/partners. #poweredlibraries#txlchat
Public and academic Federal & State Depository libraries often engage in collaborative collections development, including joint digitization of archival resources relevant to their communities #txlchat
Q2: I partnered with @ViperNationEF 2 help turn the library into a learning commons. Very fortunate 4 the support. The new space is amazing and impacts so many Ss daily. #txlchat
Q2: What other organizations, including public and academic libraries have you partnered with to impact your students or community? #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A2: @alkeklibrary, San Marcos Public Library, @txst, @aplusfcu have all been supportive of our library programs. I work with all 4 regularly for various projects - guest readers, field trips, performances, financial literacy. #txlchat#poweredlibraries
#poweredlibraries#txlchat Our school partners with @BexarBibliotech our county All Digital library. they have outreach that come present to our kids and we have card drives. Great audio, digital reading
When I worked in public we partnered with anybody and everybody we could from farmers markets to businesses. Here at LCU some of our fantastic libs partner with local HS's to help teach research methods and standards
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A2: I invited our public library to come out to our family reading night. They came out with forms for families to sign up to get library cards. It was awesome! #txlchat
A2: we are evaluating all our district library spaces--inviting both U.T. librarian and our public librarian from @westbankcommunitylibrary to be on our team. #txlchat
Q3: What are some inspirations/ideas have you heard of that you’d like to consider? Share links to blogs, tweets, etc. you may have read. #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A1: It’s fun to partner with academic and public libraries. I have partnered on a Bluebonnet Camp and Teen Bookfest by the Bay with public libraries and have an upcoming Dr. Seuss Celebration March 2 with TAMU-CC Bell Library #txlchat
A3 I talk to other librarians in my district. The librarian at @milbylibrary has great ideas for reader engagement. I also follow a lot of public and university libraries, other high school librarians for inspiration and ideas, as well as tech people on social media. #txlchat
A3: I had a great meeting with our public librarian and learned a lot from her management skills as a lib director. Makes me want to build a more permanent bridge w/her for my prof. growth. #txlchat#poweredlibraries
Tardy to the party but A1 We are trying to partner with outside organizations community members to teach workshops on lots of topics to our Ss. We have plans with a financial planner to teach our seniors about budgets and financial planning this spring #txlchat
Q3: What are some inspirations/ideas have you heard of that you’d like to consider? Share links to blogs, tweets, etc. you may have read. #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A3: we will hopefully be rolling out a library card to all 20,000+- of our students in April. I'd like to build ILL & a courier service between our campuses & public library branches like Nashville.
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A3: I’d love to have a program that brings dogs or furry friends to the library for story time. Also want to get more TexShare and pub lib cards in Ss hands. We’ve had 2 PL card drives that have been successful-about 1/2 our Ss have Public lib cards. #txlchat#poweredlibraries
I’m in the middle of organizing my school’s 2nd school-wide reading celebration of the year. Getting community members to read to a classroom of children, tell little bit about themselves and their job, and tell a little bit about their reading lives #txlchat#poweredlibraries
Once part of city wide partnership w NEA for The Big Read connecting libraries, programming, community agencies #TXLchat fab book resources at Nat Endowment for the Arts
Tardy to the party but A1 We are trying to partner with outside organizations community members to teach workshops on lots of topics to our Ss. We have plans with a financial planner to teach our seniors about budgets and financial planning this spring #txlchat
A3: Twitter stalking #tcea18 gave me so many ideas for trainings and lessons. We have a Poetry Snap lesson Planned with an English 2 class in March that I borrowed from a Book Snaps presentation I saw people tweeting about #txlchat
#poweredlibraries#txlchat I would love to do a district-wide Literacy on the Lawn. I am gathering ideas everywhere I can. Looking for literacy supporters in community to make it BIG.
Once part of city wide partnership w NEA for The Big Read connecting libraries, programming, community agencies #TXLchat fab book resources at Nat Endowment for the Arts
A4: Twitter has opened new doors for our library and for me! Networking, conferences, chats on here and in person, and even Pinterest have given me new ideas and goals for partnerships. #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A3: I’d love to have a program that brings dogs or furry friends to the library for story time. Also want to get more TexShare and pub lib cards in Ss hands. We’ve had 2 PL card drives that have been successful-about 1/2 our Ss have Public lib cards. #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A4I usually talk to other librarians, but the #poweredlibraries site is a great resource and I look forward to using it soon. I would love to partner w/ a local hackathon group and let students identify community needs & hack out some solutions while being mentored #txlchat
A4 Honestly find most of my ideas from librarians on Twitter #txlchat but I've also found great ideas on @neprisapp - Great way to have industry pros speak to your students.
A1: Partnering with public libraries establishes a strong bond within the community, resources can be shared. Students only benefit from this partnership. #txlchat
I learn so much on Twitter too! Wanted to share that my whole reading website is free and I have a special teacher page full of ideas. https://t.co/vc5iOtGUzB#txlchat
A3: Twitter stalking #tcea18 gave me so many ideas for trainings and lessons. We have a Poetry Snap lesson Planned with an English 2 class in March that I borrowed from a Book Snaps presentation I saw people tweeting about #txlchat
A3. I recently become a member of two Facebook groups for librarians, FutureReady Librarians and Learning Librarians. We share ideas, collaborate, and support each other. #txlchat
Q4 Sometimes it’s a cart Becky the horse thing. We get an idea, then figure out or ask around our faculty and staff if they know any organizations or people who could help. Every campus has a wealth of info inside of it if you ask around #txlchat
A3: Twitter stalking #tcea18 gave me so many ideas for trainings and lessons. We have a Poetry Snap lesson Planned with an English 2 class in March that I borrowed from a Book Snaps presentation I saw people tweeting about #txlchat
A2 This isn’t a recent event, once upon a time we would partner with Barnes & Noble for a once a month Saturday Book club called Java Makes me jump! We had games, book readings, sometimes authors. It was awesome. #txlchat
A3. I recently become a member of two Facebook groups for librarians, FutureReady Librarians and Learning Librarians. We share ideas, collaborate, and support each other. #txlchat
A4: Our public library was so eager to partner with the school district -they were the first people I met with after starting my job! I've also gone to Chamber of Commerce mixers to meet business owners. Many ppl want to partner, but we have to put ourselves out there! #txlchat
A2: In the past I've partnered w/ the local public library for book talks and events as well as my feeder campuses to encourage students and family members to take advantage of opportunities ordered and events #txlchat
A4 #poweredlibraries#txlchat Try to be active in community ...looking for literacy supporters. Read article about mayor and wife are big on literacy...so they’re on my list. Edutopia and Edudemic @tcea...I really love Lunch and Learn from @poweredlibraries
A4: I took a peek @poweredlibrary. It's an excellent resource. I also love to learn from the #futurereadylibs & The School Workshop FB groups. There is so much greatness going on. I'm glad I became a librarian in such a dynamic age in communication. #txlchat#WorldWide
We are reinstating our district wide Frisco Reads which brings a lot of partnerships and schools in our district together to celebrate literacy! #txlchat
A4: I make connections on Twitter and at conferences. Also I follow blogs, and sometimes just reach out to the librarian. That's how I made a connection with @NancyJoLambert and got my #flexschedule going #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A4: Our public library was so eager to partner with the school district -they were the first people I met with after starting my job! I've also gone to Chamber of Commerce mixers to meet business owners. Many ppl want to partner, but we have to put ourselves out there! #txlchat
A4: Feel free to look at my upcoming book Makers with a Cause (yes, shameless promotion 😊) Lots of community partnerships (Chapter 4) https://t.co/GDRJ8f7iv7#txlchat
Last few mins #txlchat . What great ideas about partnering! I'm excited about inviting in some gaming design companies in to talk to our students soon! #txlchat#poweredlibraries
A3: Inspirations come in many forms! The YA book riot newsletter keeps me informed so I can make relevant displays, programs, and purchases. Listserv email groups and FB future ready library group keep me tied to other librarians and their amazing ideas! #txlchat
A4: Of course @ #txlchat is a great place though I've been off for a while. Also Listservs and FB groups are great. I also meet a lot of others through the @NTTBFest and from my LMS alma mater @SamHoustonState
A3: Inspirations come in many forms! The YA book riot newsletter keeps me informed so I can make relevant displays, programs, and purchases. Listserv email groups and FB future ready library group keep me tied to other librarians and their amazing ideas! #txlchat
A4: Feel free to look at my upcoming book Makers with a Cause (yes, shameless promotion 😊) Lots of community partnerships (Chapter 4) https://t.co/GDRJ8f7iv7#txlchat
@_MichelleCooper has partnered w university depts 2 teach, advise on Makerspace ideas & challenges. Don’t forget the wealth in our Univ/colleges and campus clubs. #TXLchat
A4: I make connections on Twitter and at conferences. Also I follow blogs, and sometimes just reach out to the librarian. That's how I made a connection with @NancyJoLambert and got my #flexschedule going #txlchat#poweredlibraries
If anyone tries to tell you that you need to choose between books and a MakerSpace do NOT believe them. Reading breathes new life into “making,” and science/engineering must never be advanced at the expense of reading. We must create the space for both.
A3: Inspirations come in many forms! The YA book riot newsletter keeps me informed so I can make relevant displays, programs, and purchases. Listserv email groups and FB future ready library group keep me tied to other librarians and their amazing ideas! #txlchat
A1: Partnering with the public library will ensure that student have another place to get schoolwork done. A clear line of communication will ensure that they are prepared for Ss need. #txlchat
A2: Ive partnered with our public library during September’s Library Card Sigh Up month. They set up a booth at our Open House and signed up parents and students for a library card. #txlchat
A3: Another high school in our district had the public library come to their HS to sign up their Ss for e-cards. It gave them access to the Online resources. I want to try it too! #txlchat
