Welcome to my Blog!

 

I have always believed that everything happens for a reason, and I view my own life’s lessons as the building blocks upon which I can ultimately create my next chapter. I am Irish-born, and I have enjoyed a rich and exciting career to date, working as an actor, teacher, director, and cultural entrepreneur across the globe.

This is the virtual space in which I will ignite my next building block; my road to becoming a Teacher Librarian. This space will be a reflective tool for me to explore my vision, my pedagogy, my collaboration, my leadership as a Teacher Librarian in training. For me, the Teacher Librarian needs to be creative at heart, as the landscape within a contemporary library space is constantly changing in this vast digital age we are confronted with on a daily basis. Libraries can no longer be imagined as sacred temples of learning as romantic as this might be. They need to move with the times at a rapid pace and be a vibrant hub that connects staff, students and even the wider community with digital archives and  interactive and engaging learning activities.

Much loved English Actor and Comedian John Cleese so pertinently places creativity as a way of being rather than a skill in ‘Creativity: A short and Cheerful Guide.’ by John Cleese. I know I cannot merely become a great Teacher Librarian overnight, even if I am equipped with an abundance of information. I need to use my whole creative self and immerse that verhenltly into the role, alongside equipping myself with the knowledge, the wisdom and all the information needed to be everything that a Teacher librarian is.

I hope that I will be a visible, inspirational teacher librarian: a gentle negotiator for the worth of the library space, a facilitator for driving innovative learning projects and a curator for the rich digital and hard resources that support and uphold the curriculum.  I aspire to become the best at this trade; and the sturdy building block of studying the Master’s in Teacher Librarianship at Charles Sturt University will be one that I will be placing with promise.