Uploaded byWendy Stephens
AASL Librarian Image
The document discusses improving the image of school librarians and provides suggestions on how to do so. It recommends showing students actively learning in the library rather than empty photos. Librarians should introduce new technologies to faculty and students, advocate for student-owned hardware, keep up with local technologies, and ensure reading is social. They should also read more themselves, let student interests guide collections, and admit both print's limitations and advocacy fatigue while providing opportunities to redefine skills.
AASL Librarian Image
- 1. School librarian image:What it is and what to do about it… Wendy Stephens Buckhorn High School New Market, Ala. @wsstephens wstephens at madison.k12.al.us
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- 21. Introduce your facultyand students to new technologies
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- 24. Keep a fingerin every pie
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- 41. Admit the fallibilityof print.
- 42. Realize advocacy fatigue exists
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- 46. School librarian image:What it is and what to do about it… Wendy Stephens Buckhorn High School New Market, Ala. @wsstephens wstephens at madison.k12.al.us