School Library Association/International Association of School Libraries Joint Conference 2004. From Aesop to e-book: the story goes on... 17-20 June 2004, Dublin.

Conference Web site: http://www.iasl-slo.org/conference2004-program.html

IAL are contributing to this conference with a paper and a workshop. The paper is based on the CrossEd research and is entitled:

Crossing the Educational Divide: Issues surrounding the provision and use of electronic information resources in secondary and tertiary education

Ray Lonsdale1 and Chris Armstrong2

1 Department of Information Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth and 2 Centre for Information Quality Management, Information Automation Limited

Abstract

The school librarian is responsible for facilitating access to electronic resources, creating an awareness of these formats, and ensuring that the pupils and staff have the skills to exploit them effectively. Traditionally, these skills have been developed within the individual secondary and tertiary educational sectors. In the UK, skills acquisition and the implications of resource provision are being considered across secondary and tertiary education. The paper opens with an account of a study of the provision and use of electronic resources in tertiary education in the UK, and then explores the implications of research into skills transfer between this sector and secondary schools.

The workshop, New Kids on the Block: An exploration of e-books for the school library, is based on the short IAL e-books workshop. Following an introduction and short demonstration, delegates are invited to examine a range of e-books (reference, textbooks, literature and fiction, and reading schemes) while considering the following issues:

• Management implications for the school library
  • Where and how this offers more than a paper-book
  • Finding out about the existence/acquisition of e-books
  • Evaluation
  • Licensing
  • Archiving
  • Facilitating access (OPAC / website / printing)
  • School infrastructure to accommodate e-books
• Promotion in the school
• Use in teaching and learning / Curriculum
  • Virtual or Managed Learning Environments
• Relevance of these materials

The session ends with a short plenary session.

A selection of the following publisher and resource links is used during each workshop (some may require passwords). These are also available as a Word document: SLA/IASL e-Book Readings and Links.

Best Children’s Literature (on the Net)
- http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Jardin/1630/
Children’s Books Online – Rossetta Project
- http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/
City of Bits
- http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-books/City_of_Bits/
Culturenet Cymru: Digitisation project
- http://www.booksfromthepast.org/
eBookAd
- http://www.ebookad.com/
Gale
- http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/jiscgvrl/
Gutenberg: Aesop’s Fables
- http://www.gutenberg.net/browse/IA_A
International Children's Digital Library
- http://www.icdlbooks.org/
MIT: Shakespeare
- http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
NetLibrary
- http://www.netlibrary.com/
Online-Literature: Jane Austin
- http://www.online-literature.com/austen/emma/
Oxford English Dictionary
- http://www.oed.com/
Oxford Reading Tree
- http://www.OxfordReadingTree.com/
Oxford Reference
- http://www.oxfordreference.com/
Oxford Scholarship Online
- http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/
Penguin
- http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/packages/uk/epenguin/
Spartacus
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm
The Two Cities
- http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/citysites/
xReferPlus
- http://www.xreferplus.com