Found some great reading today to assist me in defining the role of the TL.
"Teacher librarianship isn’t a simple job to explain. It’s about encouraging a love of reading by matching the right books to readers, but it’s also about providing access to a wealth of information, and teaching our students HOW to define what it is they want to find out, and the best way to discover the answers. We don’t feed students, we teach them to fish." 6.4.2008. Behind the Blog. The Hub: Campaign for Quality School Libraries in Australia. http://hubinfo.wordpress.com/tag/tl-role/
"A little known fact about having a teacher librarian in your school is that she/he is more than one person. A great teacher librarian is networked with TLs throughout Australia online and involved in regular local gatherings. So when your school employs a teacher librarian, they are really tapping into the collective knowledge and experience of hundreds of school library professionals, who have amply demonstrated over the years the strength and loyalty of their collegiality, born in the pre-internet days of inter-library loans. It’s kind of like the Borg*, but with more comfortable shoes, and much less evil intent." 8.1.2001 Secret Library Business. The Hub: Campaign for Quality School Libraries in Australia. http://hubinfo.wordpress.com/tag/tl-role/
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