Change of direction?

While I was really excited about the idea of using web 2.0 tools in classrooms and as new literacies, events of the day have really renewed my interest in focusing on elementary schools (nutshell:  my daughter's school has a library clerk for 12.5 hours per week--and that is the ONLY staff person focused on the library or technology on the campus).  After venting my frustrations on Facebook and on my class discussion board, and writing to the superintendent and my state legislators, I did a new search using the keywords:  teacher librarian and elementary.

The results are so much more focused on the role of the teacher librarian in elementary schools and on actual instruction.  I think these search results may be the key to finding the articles for my abstracts.  Some potential reads:

Herring, J. , & Bush, S. (2011). Information literacy and transfer in schools: Implications for teacher librarians. Australian Library Journal V. 60 No. 2 (May 2011) P. 123-32, 60(2), 123-132.

(I may already have listed this in a previous entry.)

Kotyk, A. (2004). Information Literacy: An Overview. PNLA Quarterly, 68(4), 10-37. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

While this is an overview, there is a section specifically focused on ILI.

Carter, K. (2004). Case Study of the River View Elementary Media Center, Plainfield, Illinois. PNLA Quarterly, 68(4), 16-21. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

From the abstract, I'm not sure there is enough focus on instruction in this article; still, I'd like to look at it.

Harris, F., Arp, L., & Woodard, B. S. (2003). Information Literacy in School Libraries. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 42(3), 215. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

SAVAGE, L. (2011). A gold star experience: First grade activity plants many seeds. Teacher Librarian, 38(5), 34.

Hughes-Hassell, S. , Koehler, E. , & Barkley, H. (2010). Supporting the literacy needs of african american transitional readers. Teacher Librarian, 37(5), 18-23.

Focused on literacy (reading) rather than on informational literacy.  Ok?  Not ok?  Probably off-topic, but I might want to read it later.

Loertscher, D. (2010). Learning to read and reading to learn: Meeting the international challenge. Teacher Librarian, 37(5), 48-50.

Interesting because it (along with other findings) suggest that, at least at the elementary level, librarians should be focused on "reading" literacy instruction as well as ILI, so perhaps my previous idea that reading/literacy is "off topic" is not correct.  Maybe we can't separate the two at the elementary level.

Along those lines:

Haslam-Odoardi, R. (2010). Gifted readers and libraries: A natural fit. Teacher Librarian, 37(3), 32-36.

Herring, J. (2011). Year seven students, concept mapping and the issues of transfer. School Libraries Worldwide V. 17 No. 1 (January 2011) P. 11-23, 17(1), 11-23.

Pretty sure I listed this one before.

Miller, K. (2004). Novice teachers' perceptions of the role of the teacher-librarian in information literacy. School Libraries in Canada (Online) V. 24 No. 3 (2004) P. 13-36, 24(3), 13-36. 

Interesting to contrast what TLs think they do and what new classroom teachers expect.

Ok, I'm going to try to assemble my list of 5 from these.