The biggest take-away for me from starting my TL degree is coming to understand the many dimensions of the teacher librarian role. It is embarrassing to admit that before I started this program I was pretty sure I could be a good librarian without needing a degree! The difference between my previous understanding of the […]
As my understanding of the role of the TL and the importance of information literacy has developed throughout this course, I have been reflecting on the modules from three different perspectives. Because the course readings, assignments and discussions address the learner as a TL, I first encounter these topics through the lense of myself as […]
As I began to read the course materials for my first two Master’s Degree in Teacher Librarianship courses I started to realize the extent of my ignorance in the areas of knowledge encompassed by the Teacher Librarianship field. This in turn reminded me of the four levels of competence in learning something new. […]
Completing the literature review for my first assessment task turned out to be a lot more difficult than I expected. After stumbling upon a chapter by Perrault (2007), “The School as an Information Ecology: A Framework for Studying Changes in Information Use” I became interested and turned my focus for the literature review towards information […]
Introduction With digital technologies giving us access to nearly limitless amounts of information, the information landscape has changed in significant ways. While the process of information seeking has increased significantly in complexity, some features of the process that have stayed the same. Despite the promise that unlimited amounts of information offer knowledge to everyone, […]
This week’s reading has introduced me to a plethora of roles for the teacher librarians with various ways of categorizing, ranking and describing these different roles. With my head spinning from so many different options, it seems like a good time to reflect on what I have learned. Firstly, I’ve realized that any attempt to […]
Are school librarians an endangered species? A certain type of school librarian is an endangered species, and I think Karen Bonanno (along with many others) would say this is a good thing. The problem is allowing the stereotype of the school librarian who considers her primary job to be to guard books and shush students […]
From a seemingly simple question, ”What is information?” came a much more complex response than I ever expected. While I understand the need for those on the more philosophical side of the Library and Information Sciences to try to pin down an exact definition for “information” I am satisfied with the option to take the […]
As an elementary classroom teacher for 15 years and counting, I have worked with many different librarians. All these librarians provided lessons and book check-out times for my students but the coordination of these lessons with my teaching was usually quite limited. Luckily almost every librarian I worked with wanted as many of their books […]
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