Digital Libraries to School Libraries (DL2SL): School librarians as users and promoters of NSDL resources

A new project, DL2SL, examines a possible solution to issues of access, skill, policy, and motivation that frustrate school librarians' efforts to help to bring NSDL resources to K-12 learning environments. DL2SL includes a 3 phase approach: a survey of perceptions; the deployment of a MARC-based metadata distribution tool; and targeted professional development. This poster will illustrate the project plan and report the work to-date. The project is an outgrowth of culiminated results of 4 NSDL projects since 1999 (TeacherLIB, Viewing the Future, Infusing NSDL into Middle Schools, and DLConnect) that show that school library media specialists not only have a strong desire to promote NSDL resources, they also have the expertise to support the use of NSDL resources in schools.