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LiTTech Show #14

Welcome to LiTTech: Building a Bridge to Media Literacy- Part of the Ed Reach Network. Giving educators a voice - a BIG voice.  You’ve reached show number  __14_____!: Advocacy!




**Begin live show intro:  Welcome to the  LiTTech Show! The show that highlights innovations and progress in Library Media Technology. And we are:

Adrienne Matteson

and I’m your host....
Emily Thompson

Welcomes and introduction:
What’s the big thing that happened this week?  Newsishness? Hurricane? Library news?

SOPA and PIPA are down for the count, but MegaUpload was shuttered without trial by the DOJ spawning attacks by Anonymous.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/19/anonymous-hackers-claims-attack-on-doj-universal-music-and-riaa-after-megaupload-takedown/

ALA Midwinter is happening this week, follow the conversation on Twitter:
Youth Media Awards: #ALAyma
Conference back-channel:  #ALAMW12
YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ALAYouthMediaAwards
Press release:
http://www.ala.org/news/mediapresscenter/presskits/youthmediaawards/alayouthmediaawards


Item #1: Library advocacy

School librarian petition: http://wh.gov/Wgd (Sign by February 4)

http://hacklibschool.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/locally-grown-library-advocate/

School Library Monthly: Creating a District Wide Advocacy Plan - Christie Kaaland
Part 1:
http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/articles/Kaaland2011-v28n3p29.html

Part 2:
http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/articles/Kaaland2012-v28n4p29.html

Proactive Advocacy: “Emergency Preparedness” For the School Library
http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/articles/Kaaland2011-v27n4p49.html




Item #2: Within the school / within the community
Leadership (we’ll cover this more in depth in the coming weeks)
Newsletters/email listservs/social media (@PenfieldLib)
Partnership with the public library/other departments


Item #3: On the Web

Librarian by Day (Bobbi Newman) http://librarianbyday.net/ @LibrarianByDay
Librarian in Black (Sarah Houghton) http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/ @TheLiB
Agnostic Maybe (Andy Woodsworth) http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/ @wawoodworth
The Unquiet Library/The Unquiet Librarian (Buffy Hamilton) http://theunquietlibrary.wordpress.com/ @buffyjhamilton

Tame The Web (Michael Stephans) http://tametheweb.com/ @mstephens7


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Final Segment:

What are we reading?

Emily: Spellcaster by Cara Lynn Schulz (Sequel to Spellbound) @caralynnshultz
Addie: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green @realjohngreen
the Vlog Bothers www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers

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Looking ahead:

Next week we’ll take a gander at the various standards set by the ALA and what they mean to educational librarians.


That will do it for this week on the LiTTech Show.  
Emily Thompson emiathom@gmail.com @librarianofdoom librarianofdoom.com
Adrienne Matteson queenaddie@gmail.com @queenaddie

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