PART A Philosophy Before entering the Master of Education (Teacher Librarianship) degree, I had a completely different view and philosophy on the role of school librarians. As discussed in my first blog post of the degree “Reflection – Assessment One” (Vitnell, 2021), I did not even consider a teacher librarian (TL) to be a teacher. Read More…
Category: Collection Development
Literature Forms and Genres
Modules 2a and 2b in ETL402 have been some of my favourite modules of the MEd so far. It truly makes me feel like a real librarian just reading through them! I am surprised by how much I thought I knew before coming into these modules and realising there was much more to learn. Module Read More…
To weed or not to weed?
Module 5 of ETL503 has been highly informative and highly applicable to the TL’s role. The large section on weeding has had my brain stirring as it is a focus goal during my first year of being a TL. The school I currently work in does not have a library collection and deselection policy. From Read More…
Collection Analysis – A quick snapshot!
Truly, collection analysis seems daunting! Being new to the TL role this year and coming into a library where there was no set collection policy documents or procedures for collection analysis, this module has made me excited and nervous all at the same time. From the Johnson (2018) reading, I can see how both qualitative Read More…