I surprised myself last week when advocacy took over my initial vision of our school Library website. While I am still intent on learning about my administrators’ strategic goals for the school so that I can frame my library programming around them, the actual creation of the website led me down a different path. ItContinue reading “The Big Unveil”
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Time To Practice What We Preach
Here comes the exciting part of the course – and the most daunting. It’s one thing to learn new information. It’s another to put that learning into action and produce a bona fide artifact that will be useful in my community. I suppose this sense of trepidation I feel in accomplishing this might be similarContinue reading “Time To Practice What We Preach”
The Triple Threat
The notion of the school librarian position being a leadership role has surfaced in a couple of my previous UBC T-L courses, and I wholeheartedly agree. When I interviewed for the T-L role at our school, I did not have any formal T-L training. They asked me why I wanted to move into the roleContinue reading “The Triple Threat”
Mo’ money, mo’ readers
Confession: I work at an independent school with a well-funded library. I often approach conversation with other librarians with caution because of this little secret. I have always felt my challenges with student reading are vastly different than those who work in a library with a very small budget. From my experience, it is aContinue reading “Mo’ money, mo’ readers”
The Learning Circle 