Blog 2: Position and role of Reference material services in a school library
Retrieved from Google The Role of a Teacher Librarian has been evolving over the past two decades, as I have mentioned in my blog post How Teacher Librarians Share Their Knowledge; “ A librarian’s area of expertise is information management; in the twenty first century Librarians are information providers, consultants, curriculum activist, instructional designers, instructional leaders, production specialist and most importantly teachers. That is a very long list of the roles and responsibility of a Teacher Librarian to accomplish on their own” (Martin, 2017). So how can one Teacher Librarian accomplish all those roles in a 5-hour workday? Well with all the discussion with other Teacher Librarians and school districts it is nearly impossible. The school community needs to work together to teach students how to successfully utilize the Learning Commons and resources that are available to them. The collection is the foundation to a Learning Common...