Reflecting on who I am and where I want to be…
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 role of the Teacher-Librarian (TL) is constantly evolving, as does my understanding of it. At the start of the semester, I thought the Library was predominantly about books, not realising that the increasing digital world and the projected future needs of our students means TLs need to revolutionise their practice in order to meet…
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…