Reflecting on who I am and where I want to be…
Despite the Australian Curriculum’s push towards the acquisition of twenty-first century learning skills, and modern teachers who strive to adopt innovative approaches and pedagogical practices, there is a dichotomous relationship between what teachers and students often want out of school, and what politicians see as essential. The notion of getting ‘back to basics’ in terms…
An integral role of a Teacher-Librarian is to resource the curriculum, and thus a school library collection must support teaching and learning needs. Indeed, the NSW Department of Education’s Library Policy mandates that a Teacher-Librarian assists to provide “information-related resources integral to the planning, implementation and evaluation of the curriculum of the school” (2020, p.1).…
The NSW Department of Education’s Library Policy – Schools (2020) does not look as extensive as the Queensland Department of Education policy (2012) which has been referred to in Module 1, and thus does not specifically define collection management, although it does state that Librarians are responsible for: selection and culling ordering and acquisitions cataloguing and classification…
To me, an information society means one where there is a saturation of information resulting from changes in the way that information is disseminated and consumed. According to Rouse (2005), it is a society in which the ‘creation, distribution and manipulation of information has become the most significant economic and cultural activity.’ It is a…
When I think about collection development and collection management, the fiction section of the the Library springs to mind, and all I can imagine is carefully curating the most beautiful, engaging, thought-provoking and diverse range of fiction books imaginable. If the innermost part of my heart was a compass, this would be my North –…
It is difficult to cast my mind back to early in my career, when I thought nothing could be more fulfilling than teaching my own English classes, and when I didn’t realise that the desire to become a Teacher Librarian was beating like a drum in my own heart. Back then, I would sigh happily…