Framed Tales

Debbie Abilock

Biography

• 25 years in Education
• Founding Editor of Knowledge Quest (ALA’s print journal)
• Co-Founder of NoodleTools – Bibliography and Research website
• Serves on the National Advisory Board for Project LEAD
• School Liaison for BayNet – a multi-type library association for the San Francisco Bay area
• Past positions
  • Assistant Head of The San Francisco School (2003-2004)
  • Technology/Library/Curriculum Coordinator – Nueva School in California (1979-2003)

Highlighted Works

• A Seven-Power Lens on 21st Century Literacy [PDF]
  Nov/Dec 2003 Multimedia School
• Engendering Equity; Apply the Research on Gender to Your School Library
  (revised in 2004 from an article originally published in Emergency Librarian)
• Literary Club: Meaning-Making in a School Community
  (revised in 2004 from an article originally published in School Libraries in Canada)

Knowledge Quest Columns

• Alpine Flowers [PDF]
• Information Literacy from Prehistory to K-20; A New Definition [PDF] – My favorite of the bunch, it leads to a great special section of Knowledge Quest
• Put Yourself in Your Administrator’s Shoes [PDF]

Research, Contributions, and the Most Important Things You Need to Know

• Debbie focuses on practical and real-life solutions to research dilemmas.
  • Her website NoodleTools enables students and teachers to handle the practical problems of research
• She is a consultant on issues like:
  • Technology
  • Citing Sources: Why?
  • Collaboration
  • Motivational Teaching
• As the editor of Knowledge Quest she focuses the journal of one of the most important library publications.

References

Abilock, D. (2008). Retrieved October 29, 2008, from http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/bio/

Abilock, D. (2008).  Retrieved October 29, 2008, from www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/debbie/abilock

In the middle of my first 8 am to 5 pm class.  The Saturday classes for SLM program are only 9-3 and they usually end at 2 and we take time for lunch, but this is crazy.  Nevermind that i didn’t sleep last night, arrived home from work at almost 2 and then was too keyed up to fall out, this class is looong.  Thank the gods it is hands on if it wasn’t I’d be asleep by now.