Reflecting on who I am and where I want to be…
PART A: What makes an effective Teacher Librarian? An effective teacher librarian is one who demonstrates leadership, collaboration, innovation, and supports the school community through the provision of services which enhance learning and wellbeing. It is someone who can position the Library as the heart of 21st century learning within the school and support whole…
I’m not sure I’d ever truly considered the complexity of developing and managing collections. Buying fiction titles? No problem, as I outlined at the beginning of semester (Montgomery, 2021, March 9). Developing a modern and relevant non-fiction section? I knew I could do it. Naively, I didn’t consider how I could develop a collection to…
The Australian Curriculum’s cross-curriculum priorities have been designed to allow learners to engage with contemporary issues, which not only benefits each individual learner but the community and society as a whole. They allow regular curriculum content across key learning areas to be enriched, allowing students to think deeply and critically about the priority areas and…
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…