What is OELMA?
The Ohio Educational Library Media Association is Ohio's preeminent professional association for highly effective school librarians and libraries.
The mission of the Ohio Educational Library Media Association is to meet the needs of Ohio’s learners as we advocate for and provide professional development to school librarians.
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Paperless classrooms--learning in the cloud
Posted by Sheila Campbell
on Thursday, 21 March 2013
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Sheila Campbell
Sheila Campbell is the 2013 Secretary for OELMA and is the Library Media Specialist for the Columbus Zoologica...
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A recent thread on the OELMA listserv highlights the popularity of creating paperless classrooms. Students e-mail homework to teachers and save their papers in "the cloud" for group projects; teachers are grading digitally, using iPads and tablet computers; administrators are cutting spending on sets of books for English classes and other...
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Librarians as Literacy Lifesavers: Providing Critical Common Core Support for Content Area Teachers
Posted by Susan Yutzey
on Wednesday, 20 March 2013
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Susan Yutzey is President of the Ohio Educational Library Media Association for 2013. She is a proud member o...
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Marcia Barnhart, former Assistant Director of Professional Development/Stakeholder Outreach at the Ohio Department of Education and now Teacher2Teacher Director of Organization Learning, will present ideas and resources to demonstrate how librarians can support all content area teachers in their use of the literacy standards to build content knowledge. Participants will gain...
Have you received your April 2013 issue of School Library Monthly? If so, you will see that OELMA is well-represented in this edition. First of all, Kathy Fredrick, Director of Libraries and Instructional Technology for the Shaker Heights City Schools, has written an article titled, "Virtual Pathfinders: LiveBinders and LibGuides". Kathy...
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Nominate Outstanding Colleagues for OELMA's Scholarships & Awards
Posted by Michelle Lombardi
on Monday, 18 March 2013
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OELMA's 2013 awards include:
Administrator-of-the-Year Award
Award of Merit
Emerging Leader Award
Intellectual Freedom Award
Library of Distinction Award -- District Category
Library of Distinction Award -- School Category
OELMA/Follett Library Resources School Librarian-of-the-Year Award
OELMA Scholarship
J. Allen Oakum Scholarship
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K.S.U. School of Library and Information Science Seminar Helps Job Seeking Librarians
Posted by Victoria Karakasis
on Monday, 18 March 2013
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Victoria Karakasis is currently the librarian/media specialist at St. Peter Chanel High School.
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Jumpstart Your Career in Youth Services Librarianship was a terrific day long seminar hosted by Kent State University Youth Services Librarian Professors this past Saturday, March 16th, 2013.
Attendees had the opportunity to learn from some of Ohio’s most talented librarians. It was a day jam packed with useful information for...
