Being and becoming a teacher librarian
An MTL journey
As is the case with many areas of library science of which I have worked clumsily around and within over the last few years, my knowledge and understanding of library collections was nebulous at best. Nebulous in that they were vaguely considered and nebulous in definition: a loosely formed mass of inherited material under my…
Both Wade and Takeda see a positive future for school library collections and collection development where the teacher librarian and the school community was able to create a clear vision of what collection development is about and to adapt and change with developments in information technology. Wade’s article from 2005 is, at times, surprisingly…
It is hard for me to begin any blog post without relating the topic back to my previous experiences acting as a teacher librarian for several years. On the matter of collection policy and procedure, it took me about 5 years before I understood why I really needed these and first attempted to write a…
According to advice from Lamb and Johnson’s (2012) article on budget management, a TL (they refer primarily to a library media specialist, but I’m sticking with TL here) should wear three hats in planning and managing a budget: collaborator, steward, and thinker. These roles overlap as a TL works to establish a budget and use…
