Getting There

How are you making your library website participatory? I am having trouble deciding on how to make the pages ones that act as a magnet–drawing kids back on a regular basis to see what is new. How can students add value? Through blogs? Wikis? Do you have your library on Facebook? Joyce Valenza comes the [...]

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Whew! Three weeks into school and like all of us I still have undone items on my “to do” list from the second week (the first week was spent in a camp in the hill country with our freshman class). Like most of us, I have taught or helped in 30 classes in the last [...]

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Well, I did it. I practiced what I preach. My good friend, colleague, and former principal, Marla McGhee, and I often present to school library groups on our book The Principal’s Guide to a Powerful Library Media Program (Linworth, 2005–2nd edition in the works!). One keynote focuses on the 5 things you want a new [...]

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I continue to learn from Joyce Valenza and Carolyn Foote, two prolific and informative bloggers. Joyce’s blog “The Never Ending Search” and Carolyn’s blog “Not So Distant Future” should be on your RSS aggregator so you don’t miss a word they post. Here we are at the NECC ‘08 conference convincing Barbara Jordan to [...]

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Just coming down from the NECC conference. Feeling overwhelmed and motivated. I always go into conferences thinking that I know a lot and come out realizing that I am not quite there. Rock star school librarians such as Joyce Valenza, Carolyn Foote, Diane Cordell, Anita Beaman, and others can inspire me to go further. Joyce [...]

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