The role of the Teacher Librarian is so vital to the school.

TL’s are there to support the teachers, they should facilitate training – I saw this in action on my placement last year, the teachers would come to the library to hold PD’s. The HOP would like to make changes to the staff room, but why not make changes to the library and hold staff meetings there, this way there is easy access to resources and the library can collaborate and share with the teachers. Our current library structure and layout is well behind the times, and really needs updating and major staff changes to bring it up to the 21st Century.

I don’t feel the library has a loud enough voice. It is classed as a specialist lesson, to give time release to the classroom teachers, but that’s it. It is not providing students with current skills to ensure they are leave school with the current technological skills.

I like this outline from Future Ready Librarians (Ford, 2016) that shows the people involved and the change process that could be followed when I am in the role.