This subject has provided me with the opportunity to reflect on far more than just the teacher librarian (TL) being a position of leadership but also on how leadership impacts

When I consider the imagery that these 2 words conjure: a knight with sword and shield at the ready and the latter an enthusiastic and flamboyant street hawker; they seem

I was recently asked to reflect on the people who have been inspirational in my working and learning life. My most immediate thought was of 2 librarians; one from my

Having been tasked with an assignment titled ‘descriptive cataloguing’, I dived into a world of new terms and time spent agonising over whether to include something in brackets or not.

Having recently completed an assignment that focused my attention on what I think the ideal leadership structure in a school is and it made me realise that I am very

I would like to think that I handle it pretty well most of the time although I do experience anxiety/stress both before and during the process which sometimes impacts on

Teachers are very used to change as we deal with it every single day. Small changes such as having a lunch duty reorganised or adjusting a student group due to

What sort of leadership do I want? Gardiner (2013, p.13) defines leadership as: ‘the process of persuasion or example by which an individual (or leadership team) induces a group to

I have just begun ETL505 – Describing and Analysing Education Resources and if I am honest the title made me feel that it was going to be a pretty dry

What does this mean to me as I begin a subject titled as such? During ETL401 we touched on the concept of the TL as a curriculum leader. TLs are

The obvious answer is, at some point, someone added it to the collection. Less obvious is the reason why; a collection development policy (CDP) would certainly help to explain this.

To understand the importance of information literacy (IL) it needs to be considered against the backdrop of us living in what I have called an ‘inforoment’ (information environment). To truly

Have the skills required to be considered information literate changed as a result of technological advances? Or is it more a case of there are just more places to find

So just wanted to share a success story or two success stories really.  I have been struggling with borrowing and browsing time with Kindergarten as I am in the library

There are many variations on definitions depending on what you read. The overall consensus seems to be that a person who has information literacy (IL) – or is information literate

When I was a child in primary school, I think that teachers would have had an easier time answering this than teachers of today. Teaching literacy meant ensuring that s

I have been working on an analogy that I think I am finally ready to share. Teacher Librarians (TL) are the diamond within a school setting, or at least they

My very first blog shared my thoughts on what the role of a Teacher Librarian (TL) was and I freely admitted that it was a naïve and simplistic view. According

After watching Karen Bonanno’s 2011 speech at ASLA and reading her 2015 article on the same topic – A profession at the tipping point – I have to answer the

After completing a module on evaluating collections I have come to the realisation that it is not a ‘one size fits all’ model. There are many methods and the task