{"id":305,"date":"2014-09-17T18:29:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/?p=305"},"modified":"2014-09-17T18:29:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:29:32","slug":"model-school-library-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/2014\/09\/17\/model-school-library-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"Model School Library Webinar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div lang=\"EN-US\">\n<div class=\"x_WordSection1\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A free webinar, \u201cThe R.O.A.D. I Travel: A Program Model for School Libraries,\u201d will explore how an Indianapolis middle school library partnered with other organizations to develop an innovative genealogy unit for eighth-graders. The program was recently recognized with ALA\u2019s 2014 Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award for Exemplary Humanities Programming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Presenting the webinar will be AASL President-Elect Leslie Preddy, school librarian at Perry Meridian Middle School, and Suzanne Walker, children\u2019s services consultant at the Indiana State Library. They will discuss how they created and implemented \u201cR.O.A.D. (Research, Observe, Analyze, Discover) I Travel\u201d in partnership with the Indiana Historical Society in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Over one semester, librarians assisted nearly 500 eighth-graders in researching their family histories online and in historical newspapers on microfilm, while historians and preservationists taught the students preservation and interview techniques. The unit culminated in a project fair, where students displayed videos, scrapbooks, student-made family cookbooks and demonstrations of unique family hobbies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The webinar will be held at 2 p.m. CDT Wednesday, Oct. 8. Register online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mail.csulb.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=feFhGbvykkqMGowmBFFZ4H8IgU4jptEIGP7o2QtFgZH0IOq5U4-ZAiOAhhTZ1QXZ7ZoadJggKg0.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fbit.ly%2fjaffarian2014\" target=\"_blank\">bit.ly\/jaffarian2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A free webinar, \u201cThe R.O.A.D. I Travel: A Program Model for School Libraries,\u201d will explore how an Indianapolis middle school library partnered with other organizations to develop an innovative genealogy unit for eighth-graders. The program was recently recognized with ALA\u2019s 2014 Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award for Exemplary Humanities Programming. Presenting the webinar will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}