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ETL503 Part B Assessment Task – Reflective Practice

Ruth Parker

Reflective Practice When considering the nature of a school library collection I first connected with the interpretation given by the NSW Department of Education (2015, p. 2) of collection development and collection management (Parker, 2020a). With no attempt to separate the two terms I reasoned that both development and management were part of a holistic […]

ETL401 Module 3 The role of the Teacher Librarian (ii)

Ruth Parker

The Teacher Librarian – An Expert, a Leader, a Necessity? Reflections on Karen Bonanno’s 2015 article ‘A profession at the tipping point (revisited)‘ Bonanno (2015) reviews findings shown in surveys undertaken by Softlink to support her discussions around the viability of school libraries and TLs (p. 20). Her “glass half full” (p. 14) approach to […]