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Raspberry pi and TLs - "librarians tend to be early adopters and have a far more wide-ranging view of the role of technology in education than many other groups."

solid advice for the TL seeking to influence...

Talks about health libraries, but completely applicable to school TLs. 

YouTube clip pitched to real estate agents. Hang on! They're only referred to a few times! The material is highly relevant to TLs. Both content creation and content curation can help you position yourself as a trusted resource online. But before acting on either, consider formulating a content strategy. This way, whether you are creating or curating you can be sure that the content you share is valuable and useful to your intended audience. So what's the difference [...]

This is a fantastic Australian authoritative and free online Magazine that I regularly read - and this article is relevant to the TL.

Free online PD for teacher librarians - list produced by Joyce Valenza

Cathy, thanks for bookmarking this. The SLANZ journal is great reading and the issuu format is very cool. The articles on 'Content Curation' are all interesting to me, esp Judy Connell's. I'm not sure that content curation is the new black, rather a rebranding of what librarians and TLs have traditionally done. A paper based 'pathfinder' may seem anachronistic but they still have a place as tool to conmunicate / market/ educate. Of course, I also support Judy's position on the opportunity to for Web 2.0., apps and a range of digitals tools to curate content to communicate / market/ educate our students in developing 21st century skills. I'm not sure that 'content curation' the new black but it most definitely has synergy!

"Much has been written about the role of Teacher Librarians in our schools.   Sadly though, much of it is lamentations about the decreasing numbers of Teacher Librarians manning our school libraries.  Every so often though, I come across inspiring words that do much to remind us of the incredible skill and value held by this professional group."

NMC horizon Project has a wiki, they do great work and they need more librarians onboard, I'd say!

Great wiki from AUHSD TLs with resources for library programs and lessons. 

Which colors look good together? How many should I use? How do I create a color palette? It's helpful for TLs to know some of the basics in design in creating brochures and other guides to effectively market services and communicate information.