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I had a pretty big blow out with my library-technician today as I had (admittedly) dropped one of the many balls I’ve been juggling this week, and forgot to set up some tech equipment for an incoming meeting. It seemed to be the straw that broke the (metaphorical) camel’s back, as she complained that “I…

After my classmates and I posted our mission statements, I saw common themes, and I thought, “Hey! I know an app for that!” So I copied them all into Wordle and this was our result: Looks like learning and students take the lead!  I’d say that’s a good sign that teacher-librarians are on the right…

When I approach a new assignment in my M.Ed. course, I often employ a healthy dose of skepticism. Looking over the course syllabus, when I saw this assignment asking me to create a mission statement for my library and for myself, in the role of teacher-librarian, I thought that this was sure to be just…

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I completed this formal report for a project in my teacher-librarianship M.Ed. this month  It has been so useful  to do this under the tutelage of the Canadian experts in school libraries, like my professor Dr. Dianne Oberg.  Not surprisingly (and to my disappointment) so little formal research has been done on the impact of…