Other+Gems


 * Buffy Hamilton is currently a media specialist/teacher-librarian at Creekview High School in Canton, Georgia. She has been an educator in the Cherokee County School District for nearly 20 years. She has a Master’s degree in English Education and an education specialist degree in School Library Media/Instructional Technology. **
 * Buffy has founded “The Unquiet Library” at Creekview High School. She is “passionate about creating library experiences for her students that will encourage them to be lifelong learners; she collaborates extensively with teachers and students in her school” to enable “information fluency and digital citizenship skills.” **
 * She blogs at The Unquiet Librarian and ALA Learning. She serves as Communications Coordinator/Chair for the Georgia Library Media Association, Social Media Chair for the AASL National Conference 2011 Committee and is a member of the Interdivisional Committee on Information Literacy AASL/ACRL. **
 * She is one of Tech and Learning’s 30 EdTech Leaders of the Future, Georgia (GLMA and GAIT) School Library Media Specialist of the Year 2010, and one of the National School Boards Association’s “20 to Watch” educators for 2010; her media program at Creekview High School was named one of two exemplary high school programs for the state of Georgia in 2010. Her Media 21 program is an ALA Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) 2011 Cutting Edge Service Award winner. She is a 2011 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. **
 * She speaks at conferences and on September 20, 2011, hosted a workshop: Creating Subject Guides for the 21st Century Library. Last winter, she introduced 10 Kindles into The Unquiet Library. The consensus is that the students (with the exception of one self-named non-reader) are excited by the new platform. There have been minimal “hiccups” as Buffy calls them. **
 * From “Librarian 2.0: Buffy Hamilton,” by Howard Rheingold: **
 * “ **** Which of the following two assignments is more likely to engage high school students and inspire them to learn something? **


 * 1. Write a paper about contemporary US war veterans. **


 * 2. Create a multimedia resource of news feeds, archival video, student interviews with veterans, document how you accomplished it, and share your findings with the world. **
 * Buffy J. Hamilton, "The Unquiet Librarian," teamed with classroom teacher Susan Lester at Creekside High in Canton, Georgia, and betting on the second alternative, they created " **[|**the veteran's issues research project**]**." Each student started by using the free Netvibes feed aggregator to create **[|**a personal learning environment**]**. **
 * Scaffolded by **[|**video tutorials**]**, students created **[|**online research dashboards**]**, found, critically examined, and installed widgets that feed continuing streams of material. Students who became interested in the side issue of bionic limb replacement branched out their own dashboard. Instead of a paper, students created a **[|**Veterans' Issues Project Portal**]**. Soon, the students **[|**made their own videos, demonstrating exactly how they were using online tools**]** to search, sift, and reframe information streams relevant to their subject. They not only demonstrated how to use the real-time web as a tool for inquiry, they showed others how to do the same.” **
 * This is how children will learn, no more copying an encyclopedia and consulting Google. Buffy doesn’t look back, she is a forward mover—stay out of her way. **
 * She says, “Whereas libraries were once places of silence, we now hear and value the diverse voices of students as they engage in dialogue.” **

Leaders in our Field __Leader Time Period Contributions__ Club and was named the county’s Magnet Lead Teacher of the Year in 2005. While a SLMS at one school, she developed another school’s library collection. In 2008, she won the county’s Teacher of the Year, beating out 160 others. She incorporates technology into her lessons and develops electronic resources for the classroom. Her library website design has won world-wide recognition. Notes: [] []
 * Lucretia Miller** present-day Was sub. teacher, then SLMS, created Shakespeare

Notes: http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/891884-264/millsap_and_stripling_to_vie.html.csp http://eduscapes.com/sms/overview/stripling.html
 * Barbara Stripling** 1970s-present Presently, Barbara is the director of School Library Services for the New York City Department of Education; her next position in January 2012 will be as the assistant professor of practice at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. She has been involved with the ALA in a leadership capacity since the 1970s. She is the author of numerous articles and books including //Curriculum Connection through the Library.//

Notes: [|http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~kuhlthau/vita_short.htm]
 * Carol Kuhlthau ** 1970s-present From her bio: Carol is the Professor Emerita of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University, a number one rated program. She has the Professor II ranking, which required additional review. She chaired the Department of Library and Information Science and was the founding director of the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL). She travels the world speaking about the Information Search Process and the ISP model of affective, cognitive and physical aspects in six stages of information seeking and use. She has authored //Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services // and //Teaching the Library Research Process // and published widely in referred journals and edited volumes. She has a new book, //Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century. //

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 * Mike Eisenberg** 1970s-present Another incredibly impressive and voluminous resume of a professor, author, and speaker on the technology of library science. He is the founding dean of the Information School at the University of Washington. “Now dean emeritus and professor, the unifying aspect of Mike's diverse management, teaching and research activities is the ongoing effort to improve society's ability to meet people's information needs.”

For over 40 years, Alice has been in education. She presently teaches graduate courses for teachers and librarians at Rutgers. Notes: http://www.aliceinfo.org/
 * Alice Yucht** 1970s-present These are the things that Alice has accomplished according to Alice:
 * Librarian
 * Teacher
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mentor
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Writer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Presenter
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Consultant
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Humorist and Storyteller, and even
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lunchroom Overseer

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">All of these leaders seem selfless in their devotion to children and teaching.