CIMT 656 Administration of School & Public Libraries Syllabus Spring 2013

Instructor Leslie B. Preddy Text: 317-789-4171 Call (by appointment or emergency only): 317-888-0077 Email: Leslie.Preddy@indstate.edu Office Hours Large or small, please contact me with your specific questions through Blackboard or the above email. When you contact me by email, please put CIMT656 in the subject line, along with the subject of your message. Phone calls may be made/scheduled as needed. Text messages at any time for a more immediate reponse. Technical Support The Information Technology (IT) Division provides technical support for distance education courses and students. Direct technical and access problems to them: 1-888-818-5465 or IT-Help@indstate.edu or http://ithelp.indstate.edu/. Course Description Administration of School & Public Libraries is a 3-hour credit graduate course designed to examine the organization, operation, planning, and equipping of school and public libraries. Emphasis is on the role of the professional in the program and the organization as they relate to the role of the library within the educational process of the institution. Required Textbook Woolls, B. (2008). The school library media manager. Westport: Libraries Unlimited. (4th edition) Supplemental Readings as directed through the Syllabus and course Blackboard

It is expected for course discussion and postings to make informed and appropriate references to the textbook and other related professional readings selected by you.
Recommended Resources A quality APA documentation guide. Recommended is Purdie OWL APA style guide: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/standards.cfm ALA Library Bill of Rights http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill/ National: ALA www.ala.org/ AASL www.ala.org/aasl/ YALSA www.ala.org/yalsa/ Your states school and public library professional organization. For example, for Indiana school librarians that would be AISLE ILF-AISLE http://www.ilfonline.org/units/aisle/ AISLE Twitter feed https://twitter.com/aisle_ilf AISLE organization wiki http://aisle.wikispaces.com/

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Course Goals/Proficiencies Welcome to CIMT 656! Im glad that you are part of this classroom community of researchers and writers. At the end of the course, when youve successfully completed CIMT 656, you will be able to: 1) demonstrate an understanding of the leadership role of the library administrator/manager in public and school libraries and the responsibilities inherent to the position, including personnel matters, continuing professional development, and program/service development, implementation and evaluation; 2) demonstrate an awareness and knowledge of the national, state, and local organizations/governmental agencies/professional standards and guidelines that impact/govern library programs; 3) identify the services, responsibilities, and program offerings that provide quality programs and the role of each component within the total program; 4) demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of physical facilities planning and management in terms of the multiple roles of libraries in public and school environments; 5) demonstrate an understanding of budgeting basics and the important role that library administrators/managers play in the financial management of progressive and effective libraries; 6) demonstrate an understanding of the importance of public relations and effective communication in improving and promoting libraries and their services; You'll demonstrate your level of accomplishment of these goals through participation and submission of formal and informal tasks, discussions and assignments. Late Work Please stay up-to-date with the assignments in this class. It is too easy to fall behind, so plan now your strategy for organizing the course into your life schedule. Some guidelines to help you stay on track: 1. Assignments need to be submitted on their due dates. Late work will be penalized. (This includes lack of participation in online discussions.) 2. Contact me in advance or late work will NOT be accepted, except in cases of extreme emergency. In this regard, immediate notification and arrangements must be made with me, and I reserve the right to ask for formal documentation of the emergency (documentation to be sent in a timely manner).
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Course Assignments & Schedule This course is designed to function as an online seminar on reference sources and services. As collaborative planning is important in education, Blackboard will be utilized as a tool to share professionally informed thoughts and ideas, as well as post projects to receive feedback from peers. Our schedule is tentative and subject to revision depending on how our work proceeds. Be sure to check frequently and make note of information and course changes posted in Blackboards Announcements and through emails.
Online Discussion Forum You are responsible for understanding and

adhering to the guidelines posted in the Course Documents: DiscussionForumEtiquette and Discussion-OnlineEtiquette. Online discussion is very important with severe penalties for missing a discussion: 25% deduction of Class Discussion & Professional Contributions grade for every missed Forum. 50% deduction of Class Discussion & Professional Contributions grade for being assigned as Discussion Leader and not guiding the discussion throughout the week or not starting your discussion on time Grade will also be severely impacted if you wait to participate in discussions until the final days or do not adhere to the Discussion policy documents. Schedule A schedule of topics, assignments and due dates will be posted in Blackboard separately. You are strongly encouraged to carefully review the material within the schedule and judiciously add the material contained within the schedule to your personal calendar

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Grading Scale A+ = A = A= B+ = B = B= C+ = C = F =

99-100 94-98 91-93 89-90 84-88 81-83 79-80 71-78 <70

Excellent work, exceeds expectations

Unacceptable work

Final Grade Determination (Please Note: Grade weights subject to change) Assignment #1 10% Assignment #2 15% Assignment #3 15% Assignment #4 15% Assignment #5 15% Assignment #6 15% Textbook & Discussion 15%

Final Note Please keep this Syllabus where you can refer to the guidelines within often. You are responsible for understanding and following the information presented within this syllabus and the course online Blackboard community.

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The overarching theme of Indiana State University's educator preparation programs is Becoming a Complete Professional. This theme encompasses three broad areas that recognize essential areas of the work of an educator: Educator as Expert or Mediator of Learning, Educator as Person, and Educator as Member of Communities. The word complete in the title acknowledges that, to be truly successful, an educator must be effective in all three of these areas. Similarly, the word becoming is included in the title because new graduates, alumni, and our faculty are never fully finished with their learning in their profession as a teacher, counselor, school psychologist, speech language pathologist, principal, or superintendent. The component Educator as Expert or Mediator of Learning deals with an educators professional skill as a mediator of students learning and/or of the progress individuals make in achieving their potential. The component Educator as Person represents the traits and dispositions that make a successful educator justifiably respected and emulated by students while meeting the expectations of professional, state, and institutional standards. The component Educator as Member of Communities reflects the necessity of contributing to the various communities of which educators, as professionals, are members. A truly successful educator must concurrently exhibit the traits of mediator of learning, person, and member of communities while incorporating the latest knowledge and technologies and demonstrating multicultural competence and sensitivity to diversity.

Diversity Statement The faculty and staff of the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Media Technology
believe in the value of recognizing the contributions of individual and group differences in areas such as ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, and personal experience. In doing so, we recognize and affirm that promoting human diversity in teaching, learning, and daily life enhances the effectiveness of our work and that of our students.

Ethics & Plagiarism When you think about ethics in writing, you might first think about plagiarismwhich is
actually a complicated term that covers many types of actions. One form of plagiarism is cheating or fraudhanding in work that someone else has written and passing it off as your own. Downloading papers from the Internet and handing them in, paying someone else to write a paper for you, taking a paper written by someone else and handing it in as your own are all forms of fraud and cheating, and if you intentionally plagiarize, you will fail this course and will be subject to sanctions which might be incurred as part of the Universitys Student Judicial process. Please be aware that proven case(s) of plagiarism could have extremely dire consequences, not only for this course, but it could also result in your expulsion from the program and could follow you professionally. Plagiarism also refers to other matters: the improper use of, say, quotation marks to indicate words quoted from a source. If you make mistakes in this area consistently, your grade will not be as high as it might have been.

Accessibility Statement ISU helps students with disabilities receive appropriate accommodations from the university and their professors (students need to register with the adaptive educational services office in order to officially receive such services). If you need accommodation in order to complete the work of the course, please let me know as soon as possible (we need only discuss the accommodation you need). For more information see: http://web.indstate.edu/sasc/dss/accessibility.htm

CIMT 656Administration of School & Public Libraries

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