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Policies for Virtual School Libraries

Dr. Judi Repman 

Dr. Beth Downs 

Dr. Lucy Bush 

Diane Griffin 

Stacey Hall

Georgia Southern University

COMO 2008

Areas of Focus

• Internet Safety
  • Internet Safety Policies and CIPA: An E-Rate Primer for Schools and Libraries
  • Are you Cybersafe? (outstanding set of links here)
  • Safety and Social Networking
  • Social Networking Sites: Safety Tips for Tweens and Teens
  • NetSmartz Workshop (available in English and Spanish)
• Cyberbullying
  • Cyberbullying Legislation and School Policies (Nancy Willard; related links found here)
  • The Fight Against Cyberbullying
  • Raising awareness of cyberbullying for kids, parents and educators (interactive) 
  • Cyberbullying.us (Hinduja and Patchin; resources, research, and related links)
• Acceptable Use Policies in the 21st Century
  • School AUP 2.0
  • AUPs in a Web 2.0 World
  • Your AUP on Social Networking? (A related set of links is found on this wiki)
  • Acceptable Use Policies: A Handbook (from Virginia, updated to address issues such as filtering)
  • Rules for the Social Web (article by Doug Johnson; a related ppt can be seen here; Johnson is also the author of "Staying Safe on the Read-Write Web", Library Media Connection, v. 26, #6, (March 2008), pp. 48-52)
  • Free Speech in  a MySpace World
  • Schools grapple with teachers' Facebook use (article from Eschool News; free registration may be required to view)
• Copyright
  • Beating the No U-Turn Syndrome: A New Approach to Teaching and Enforcing Copyright Compliance (Doug Johnson)
  • Fair Use and Transformativeness (Joyce Valenza)
  • The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy
  • Creative Commons
    • Creative Commons Copyright Solution (video)
    • Flickr Creative Commons
• Virtual Collection Development
  • Collection Development Policies for Electronic Resources (Owensboro Community College)
  • INFOOhio Collection Development Policy
• School Library Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc.
  • Blog Rules (article describing rules for teachers who blog)
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation: Legal Guide for Bloggers
  • Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules for the Revolution
  • Student Blogging FAQ
• Filtering
  • Who's in Charge? (Mark Prensky)
  • What are we Protecting Them From? (Matt Villano)
  • Filtering Facts
  • Should We Establish National Web Filtering Guidelines (Point/counterpoint from Leading & Learning with Technology, September/Oct. 2008)
  • Blocked Bytes Week (Doug Johnson)
• Privacy and Information Sharing
  • ALA/AASL Statement on Confidentiality of Library Records
  • Balancing Student Privacy and School Safety (U.S. Department of Education guide to FERPA)
  • Privacy Issues Related to Public Libraries and K-12 Schools (from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction)

General Resources:

Bell, M.A. (2008, Sept/Oct). I'm mad and I'm not gonna take it any more. Multimedia & Internet@Schools (registration required to access the article; survey summary can be found here; links to presentation titled "I Want My Web 2.0" can be found here)

Virtual School Library Media Center Manual (article by Marjorie Pappas)

The Cyber Citizen Partnership

Digital Citizenship (similar resources can be found at Digizen; "Text Unto Others" by Villano highlights the role of education in developing digitial citizenship)

Librarians BLOGS

Examples:

Group 1

Virtual School Library Policy