School library guru Dr Joyce Valenza has written an inspiring post entitled A Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians. Covering our responsibilities to students regarding:
- reading
- information landscape
- communication and publishing and storytelling
- collection development
- facilities, your physical space
- access, equity, advocacy
- audience and collaboration
- copyright, copyleft and information ethics
- new technology tools
- professional development and professionalism
- teaching and learning and reference
- into the future (acknowledging the best of the past)
this is a must read, must react, must reflect post. Thanks to Helen Boelens for directing me to this post.
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Wow, I want every school to have a library that looks like that! Beautiful manifesto and goal for libraries everywhere!
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