yes, I agree with Barbara. I often say to the children that I give them a gift.
The gift of time. Time to browse. To let our eyes alight on something. To pull a
book off the shelf. To sit cross-legged in an aisle, opening and closing volumes as
we wish. To choose or to choose not to choose. I give them permission to wander, to
stumble onto something unexpected knowing that this is not the last, not the only
library time.
Lisa Von Drasek
Coordinator of
School Services/
Children's Librarian
Bank Street College of Education
School for Children Pre-K- 8
610 West 112th St
NY NY 10025
lisav@bankstreet.edu
212 875 4452
>>> Barbara Braxton <barbara.288@BIGPOND.COM> 5/6/2010 5:16 PM >>>
<Because some kiddos will take the whole period wandering around the
library, not to be actually connecting with a book but just to be wandering,
visiting with friends, playing with the shelf markers.....>
I have watched kids do this and it never really bothered me because I do the
same thing when I go to my public library - and sometime I leave
empty-handed because my brain is not in a borrowing frame of mind because I
am distracted by something else, I am overwhelmed by the choice or I just
can't see anything to attract my attention at that time today. But my
browsing enables me to know what is there when I am ready - and that
conversation I had in the shelves might just have eased my mind.
Different if I am disturbing the choices of others but sometimes the
opportunity I have to go to the library (we live outside a very small rural
town with a mobile library service) just doesn't coincide with my being
ready to go.
Barbara
Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
COOMA NSW 2630
barbara.288@bigpond.com
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