Upon reflection of Karen Bonannaro’s Keynote the question of whether school librarians are an endangered species is a resounding no.
The issues of economic rationalisation, job convergence, and people with business focused qualification being put in positions of overall decision making leads to a general invisibility of the importance of any particular role in the education system.
Karen suggests the pathway for school librarians through this contemporary cultural milieu is to progress through AITSL’s standards towards highly accomplished or lead , to establish preeminence in our domain of information literacy, and to lift students and teachers towards excellence with our expertise.