Library Media Tech Talk

Congratulations to Mr. Kevin Parrott for helping us create a great collaborative library video commercial! Kevin is a 12th grade student here at Lakeside High School. Our library team had an idea to create an innovative commercial combining athletics and literacy. Kevin helped us make it happen! Special thanks to Kevin, the LHS Cross Country Team, Coach Joe Hobbs, and Coach Karrie Irwin for taking the time to do this project with us! The commercial has already received many views and comments on various social media outlets over the past week! Also, many thanks to Mr. Carl Harvey, II, one of the editors of ABC-CLIO's new School Library Connection  publication. He has invited me to write an article about this commercial in an upcoming issue! I asked if Kevin could co-write with me, and Carl approved! I'm so grateful that we will be able to share a student voice in a national publication! Stay tuned! Check out the video above! Our goals for 2015-2016 can be f...

It seems like the first few weeks of school are always the equivalent of drinking from a fire hydrant! Now that the rush of the first few weeks have subsided, it's time to start setting the course for the year. First of all, I would like to share some celebrations. This blog is nearly a year and a half old. It is the direct result of being inspired by Shannon Miller at the Arkansas Association of Instructional Media conference in 2014 (a prime example of why we should attend professional conferences). I remember listening to her talk about networking on Twitter and sharing her library happenings on the VanMeter Library Voice blog. After I heard this, I couldn't wait to start reflecting in the same way! 59 posts and 17 months later, I'm more excited than ever to plan and write these articles. I'm convinced that blogs and social media are important "digital billboards" to show evidence of what we do in this wonderful profession! I want to celebrate some of the...