Reinventing libraries

A piece in The Sacramento Bee (You’ll have to BugMeNot this one as it’s behind a registration) on school media centers:

“For five years, Julie Holgate-Robinson supervised Aero Haven’s computer lab, based in a windowless building away from the library. Now her lab is a collection of laptops among the bookshelves.”

“I wouldn’t have any idea what teachers were checking out in the library,” she said. “But now I can tie into what they’re reading in the classroom.”

“The libraries were designed to be flexible. Bookshelves can be wheeled aside, and lightweight tables replaced the bulky desks needed for desktop computers.”