Week 6 Thing#15

From “Away from the “icebergs” Rick Anderson Director of Resource Acquisition

First Berg: who has funds for the “just in case collection?” You gotta be kiddin right?

Second Berg:
u know I just calculated the librarian to student ratio in our high school and I get 1: 960 which is an improvement over last year which was 1:1200. The biggest connection I made was to make sure that the services we have such as our databases, research pathfinders, citation maker and OPAC are easy to access and use. Students are no different than teachers. They want to easily access quality information. I know our library is striving to accomplish this. We are constantly making improvements and changes to ensure that students and teachers can get to what they need.

Third Berg:
We tell teachers that we can come to their classrooms. With many teachers in our building taking part in CFF (Classrooms for the Future - content area teachers who are participating have laptop carts in their classrooms) we want them to know that we can come to them.





“Into a new world of librarianship” Michael Stephens Librarian, Blogger




New world of librarianship should be my title. I taught kindergarten for 13 years and am just on year 2.5 of being a high school librarian. I have no huge past of how things used to be. I get the wave of constant changes. By reading journals, blogs and talking to other coworkers we get new ideas to try in our teaching. We are teaching cooperatively and learning from others and yes, having fun at the same time. Our newest twist is switching from a 9 day period to block scheduling. Goodbye study halls every period. Hello flex (study hall) for just 2 blocks. Hello added part-time librarian to help handle teaching in the block.

For me 2.0 is our information life. Ever changing so keep learning.