After reading Acquiring Text e-books (Morris, C. & Seibert, L 2010) I am taking some time to reflect upon what I have engaged with…. And it is safe to say that my brain officially hurts. E-book acquisitions is a hard business to comprehend. As comprehensive as Morris & Seibert were, I am more overwhelmed than […]
Author: kathy
Debowski’s on the ‘money’
Teacher Librarianship is based on processes, traditions and foundations for future learning. There have been decades upon decades of predecessors who have pathed the way for lifelong learning. Debowski (2001) is no different. There was a certain familiarity when reading her strategies to collection management. There is nothing new or revolutionary, just commonsense and accountability. […]
More than ‘Show me the Money’!
As a TL there are some areas I enjoy more than others. I enjoying building collections for teaching, learning and fun. I also enjoy working in a team and collaborating with teachers. Something I learnt early on in my career was that I cannot teach my students if I don’t know my students, therefore building […]
PIN my inTREST!
While looking through different platforms for visual curations I decided to go with Pintrest and searched for “school library collection development’. I will be honest, I didn’t spend much time searching for a collection (assessment is looming). However, I did locate something that I have seen before, and enjoy looking at. The well renowned book […]
Book Selection Tension.
A question I have asked myself before, should I stop my children reading what they want to read? I speak in reference to my own two girls. I have two daughters, aged 11 and 9, both avid readers. My eldest love history books, historical fiction and graphic novels. While my youngest mostly loves fiction, one […]
Is there Friction with the Fictions?
Fiction vs Non Fiction is a hot topic at the moment. I find it serendipitous that this is a topic for think space this week. It was about a week ago I attended a debate, at a local bookshop where the topic was “Non Fiction is more important than Fiction”. The debaters were local authors. […]
Flow On! Further Resourcing the School Library.
Flow Chart My goodness, Flow Charts, take longer than you think! I have created my own flow chart adapted from Hassell-Hughes & Mancall (2005), this is a draft and I am giving myself permission to make changes as my understanding and knowledge deepens. I have some purchasing to make in the next few weeks and […]
Resourcing for the future.
Dear Future Me, There are some thing you need to know. Your collection is not what you think it is. At this point in time your collection is in transition… transition from a safe and traditional collection to a “Collaborative Access Environment” (Hughes-Hassell & Mancall 2005). This is a letter of recommendation is to ensure […]
Strong Librarian, strong learners
“The heart of the School’s learning culture” (Valenza, 2013), sums up what we have in a school library beautifully. I have now seen two videos presented by Valenza and she is such a inspirational women in the field of School Libraries. I have once joked that I want to be like her when I grow […]
Self Management
What’s new? nothing really. After reading the two articles set for us at the beginning of Module 6 relating to , there was nothing I would call new in terms of Time Management. A more relevant question is what can I take and effectively use for my own practice? I have learnt a lot throughout […]