Monday, March 2, 2009

Ideas and thoughts for the Teacher Librarian

Blind Date with a book - To celebrate Valentine's Day: New books wrapped in brown paper with a red love-heart card and a chocolate Freddo.

"Literacy includes but also exceeds books."

Stephanie Rosali - connecting kids with books and learning.

FUN
F - Finding
U - Understanding
kN - knowing

Buy only quality resources that are interesting.

The Library should be the centre of the school.

Be a Facilitator not a Controller.

My visit to our local Library

I visited my local Library today to firstly reacquaint myself(having not ventured into this Library for some 12 years) with its facilities and secondly to get some ideas for my role as Teacher Librarian. I was amazed to see how many people were utilising the Library and the Librarians. Each computer was busy and people were scattered throughout the Library. Surprisingly there were just as many people in the Fiction as Reference areas and I was pleased with how many digital resources were available. I am going to make this a weekly outing for my family on Saturday Mornings.