Informed transitions : libraries supporting the high school to college transition

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Informed Transitions: Libraries Supporting the High School to College Transition identifies the ways in which libraries and librarians can work together and create valuable resources that help students transition successfully to college--despite the challenges of increasing demand and diminishing resources. The book is organized into three sections: background, expectations, and skills; conversations and collaborations; and programs and resources...

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ISBN:

9781610691284
1610691288

Description:

xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The transition movement: from blueprint to construction zone / Kenneth J. Burhanna
Closing the 12-13 gap together: school and the academic librarians supporting 21st century learners / Megan Oakleaf and Patricia L. Owen
Research skills: what college professors expect incoming students to know / Jennifer, Sigalet, Leslie Barton, and Sherri Savage
Boundary spanning by librarians to support the college transition for students with disabilities / Anne Marie Perrault
College readiness at the grassroots level / Ken W. Stewart and Laurie Hathman
Go further: the college and career readiness INFOhio OhioLINK P20 task force / Paula Nespeca Deal
Conversations for collaboration: librarians and the high school to college transition in Louisiana / Debra Cox Rollins, Anthony J. Fonseca, Mitchell J. Fontenot, and Kathryn B. Seidel
The DOE/CUNY Library Collaborative: high school to college transition in New York City / Leanne Ellis, Robert Farrell, Curtis L. Kendrick, Meghann Suzanne Walk, and Barbara K. Stipling
Building a better bridge: the role of the community college in information literacy efforts / Kathleen Conley
Funding the way: seeking grants to study the high school to college transition and the role of libraries / Rhonda Huisman and Kindra Orr
Supporting the high school to college transition on a shoestring / Kate Zoellner
Information literary and 21st-century skills: training the teachers / Ann Walker Smalley and LeAnn Suchy
Libraries and the early college: notes from the field / Meghann Suzanne Walk, Brian L. Mikesell, Matthew Harrick, and Teresa Tartaglione
21st-century skills and preservice teacher education / Jillian Brandt Maruskin
SPOT on transitions: enhancing 21st-century academic literacies in high school science students / Dale Lackeyram, Peggy A. Pritchard, Kim Garwood, and Clarke Mathany
Nebraska students in transition: the evolution of a partnership / Toni Anaya and Charlene Maxey-Harris
College student for a day: facilitating successful field trips to an academic library / Ann Marie Smeraldi
Dual enrollment students: starting the library connection here / Thomas L. Reinsfelder and Jill E. Thompson
Using technology to provide support to remote students participating in dual enrollment to programs / Louis E. Mays
HeLIOS: Hemingway Library information online skills tutorial / JaNae Kinikin
Pathways for success: the evolution of TRAILS and transitioning to college / Tammy J. Eschedor Voelker, Barbara F. Schloman, and Julie A. Gedeon
Libraries and the high school to college transition: a selective annotated bibliography / Tammy J. Eschedor Voelker

LCCN:

2012040519

Control Number:

958144

Other Authors:

Burhanna, Kenneth J., editor

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