Becoming an innovative planner doesn’t just happen over night, a lot of understanding and determination is practised to allow Teacher Librarians (TL) to succeed in all events and learning in the school library. Throughout this course, I have been further developing my understanding of what it means to lead and innovate not only people that work in the library but also what the library can look like when focusing on new things that can purchased and included in the library collection in the near future.
The TL has the enormous task of providing news creative ways of displaying learning in their library as well as being realistic with the amount of new resources that can be purchased with the yearly library budget. The real life example provided in our readings this week, got the local community library involved to assist with new ways of thinking as well as understanding that other services can be beneficial to student learning. Another way the TL can involve their students is by providing them with display areas for the work they have been completing in class. These displays can be situated all around the library, particularly near entrances or walkways so that visitors can admire the creative and hard work that students have been doing in the school library. I think building these relationships with students can be incredibly beneficial for the TL as they can also have personal discussions about what they would like to see when organising new displays or learning areas particularly for events such as book week.
I also certainly appreciated the notes provided by the Western Australian School Library Association (2009) newsletter as it encourages staff members to notice the early warning signs of any issues with building structure. Fixing these small issues can most definitely allow the TL to put in place any disaster plans in order to understand methods of salvaging any resources that have been impacted by floods so that they don’t have to come back to their school libraries with little to nothing in the collection.
Reference:
Western Australian School Library Association. (2009). Preparing for the end of the world: Are you ready for a library disaster? WASLA Newsletter. Retrieved from http://wasla.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/WASLA-Term-2-NewsletterE.pdf
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