Janet Yarn

April 11, 2011

Literature Review

The topic for my Action Research is to find a solution for media specialist to use

to find out about series books for their collection. Currently media specialists have to

look at multiple websites to find out when new books are coming out in a series. This is

time consuming for the media specialist and not very efficient. To enhance students’

recreational reading, it is important for the media to have books added to the collection in

a timely manner. By engaging students in the process of updating the collection, they

become more invested in it. My literature research was focused on finding different types

of technology collaboration media specialists were using. I found that there are quite a

few recent articles specifically for media specialists encouraging them to become digital

learners and teachers in order to make their libraries more efficient and engaging.

Literature Review Graphic Organizer Focus

Technology

Collaboration

Recreational Reading
Saves time

Author Title Year

options

Hodgins Dynamic Space for Rent 2010 X x x

Langhorst Google Refresh for Fall 2010 X
Rapp The Future of ILS 2011 x x x
Valenza Fully Loaded 2011 X X X
Zmuda Six Steps for Saving your School Library 2011 X X

Program
 References

Hodgins, D. (n.d.). Dynamic Space for Rent: Using Commercial Web Hosting to Develop a Web

2.0 Intranet. Journal of Web Librarianship, 4(2 & 3), 115-127.

Langhorst, E. (2010, October). Google Refresh for Fall. School Library Journal, 56(10), 11.

Rapp, D. (2011, April 1). The Future of the ILS. Library Journal, 136(6), 36.

Valenza, J. (2011, January). Fully Loaded. School Library Journal, 56(1), 36.

Zmuda, A. (2011, February). Six Steps for Saving your School Library Program. School Library

Monthly, 27(5), 45-49.