During my first semester in the Masters of Education (Teacher Librarianship) course, I have been a part of ETL503: Resourcing the Curriculum. My learning in this subject has primarily focused on developing and evaluating school library collections, collection development policies and legal and ethical issues surrounding collections. Through interacting with the learning modules, academic readings Read More…
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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…