I am starting my 3rd year as teacher-librarian in a French Immersion school in Kamloops and am working on my 9th course toward my teacher-librarian diploma program. It seems like just yesterday that I was starting my coursework after having been away from university for almost 20 years.
These courses has been the best professional development for me, and LIBE 465 promises to be no exception. It is funny how the TL courses that I take each semester seem to meet my exact needs in the area that I would like to focus on and improve in my library. This semester it will be to have my teacher resources more easily accessible and to make the collection, as a whole, more appealing to students. I'm not sure what this will look like for my assignments, but I am sure that I will soon come up with a specific idea for these.
Over the summer I had the time to play a little with Twitter, something that I signed up for in my LIBE 477 class. I signed up just to find out what it was about, never intending to tweet, only intending to follow. But as with all conversations, one-sided ones are pretty boring. I'm tweeting a little now and I see that my tweets open up new doors, especially in the area of professional development. It was by tweeting that I found out about Shannon Miller, a teacher-librarian from Van Meter, Iowa. This summer she decided to turn the organization of her library upside down. She ditched the dewey decimal system and went to a "bookstore" model. You can read more about it here.
I brought this up here, because it is about library organization and I have been wondering about how to make the collection more accessible and inviting to the students. Maybe this would work... it would take a lot of re-organizing and a big leap of faith.
What do you think of this idea?
Before I go, I want to leave you with this funny video, that I also found thanks to Twitter!
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