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ERIC Number: EJ1040233
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 2
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1094-9046
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21st-Century Thinking at the Local Level
Aubuchon, Jeffrey W.
Knowledge Quest, v42 n2 p44-45 Nov-Dec 2013
In this article, Oakmont Regional High School (Ashburnham, Massachusetts) librarian Jeffrey Aubuchon describes how the school library is developing a new classification scheme called the Spartan system. This system seeks to mirror instructional practices at Oakmont. The major divisions of the collection will be drawn around academic departments and then topically according to course offerings. The Spartan system also allows flexibility in handling sensitive topics, such as the Holocaust and health-related issues, at the direction of teachers, the subject experts. Understanding the curricular context helps place books in the school library collection. While this approach is not unlike Dewey's subsection classification scheme, Oakmont's approach allows for curriculum-driven collection organization. The underlying goal of this new scheme is to link what is done in the school library more closely to what is done in the classroom by stressing conceptual relationships.
American Association of School Librarians. Available from: American Library Association. 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. Tel: 1-800-545-2433; Web site: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/knowledgequest/knowledgequest.cfm
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts
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