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Hi Meg, Why teacher librarian? What is our role really? We are usually the only information specialist in a school community and one of the few individuals to have an overview of the curiculum. Our role is as a specialist teacher to support curriculum programs by: 1. Assisting teachers to design curriculum and assessment items that foster independent, resource-based learning that embeds information literacy and literacy development/learning outcomes in context. 2. Literature promotion and the development of literacy programs to foster the development of literacy outcomes across the school. 3. Providing specialist information/reference support for teachers, the school community and especially admin (something few of us actually do). 4. Creator/producer of policies and curriculum support materials to support 1&2 above. 5. Collaboratibve teaching with teaching staff. Notice I haven't got to the kids or the library management so far. 6. Now we come to provision of a library environment that will foster engagement by students with a range of learning resources and learning technologies. 7. Managing the library - collection development to support 1&2 above, managing systems so the library is functional and meets the needs of the school community. This is why the teacher is first and the librarian second. Our role is as a pro-actve teacher albeit a specialist one and a library manager second - what I call my houskeeping. The importance of your housekeeping cannot be understated, however, because if your library systems are running poorly you will spend your entire time in crisis management mode trying to deal with this aspect of the job. So you need to have your systems running well and so you can delegate these to others (assistants or parent volunteers) and manage the process. Then you can spend time on the good bits of your role - being very a creative, dynamic teacher librarian/information specialist. :) BC Vice President, Advocacy & Promotion, IASL: www.iasl-online.org LIS@ECU: http://www.chs.ecu.edu.au/portals/LIS/index.php Australian School Library Research Project: http://www.chs.ecu.edu.au/portals/ASLRP/ Barbara Combes, Lecturer School of Computer and Information Science Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia Ph: (08) 9370 6072 Email: b.combes@ecu.edu.au "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation." Walter Cronkite This email is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify me immediately by return email or telephone and destroy the original message. -----Original Message----- From: School Library Media & Network Communications [mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of mchawkins Sent: Tuesday, 3 March 2009 8:23 AM To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Subject: [LM_NET] Teacher Librarian Recently someone shared an article from the NYT about the changing role of school librarian. I forwarded the article to my principl and the head of curriculum and rather facetiously suggested that perhaps my title should be Teacher Librarian. Now they want me to "make a case" for their consideration. This group has always been the best at helping us all avoid reinventing the wheel. I would appreciate any ideas and arguments you have for changing the term. My motto actually is "Librarian, so much more than a teacher" but I haven't gotten that onto the letter head yet. (that's a joke, folks!) 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