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Tania Sheko

Breaking the barriers of time and space: the dawning of the great age of librarians - 4 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...PMC3257492

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shared by Tania Sheko on 29 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • We connect people to knowledge. We bring people together with the intellectual content of the past and present so that new knowledge can be created. We provide the ways and means for people to find entertainment and solace and enlightenment and joy and delight in the intellectual, scientific and creative work of other people. This is what we have always been about. [7]
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      Tania Sheko on 29 Feb 12
       
      This could be a good 'manifesto' for our role description as teacher librarians. 
  • Tania Sheko on 29 Feb 12
     
    Purpose: This lecture, reflecting on future roles, posits the potential dawning of a "great age of librarians," if librarians make the conceptual shift of focusing on their own skills and activities rather than on their libraries.
Bright Ideas

Library - Learning Futures / Learning Spaces Forum - 2 views

elib.bialik.vic.edu.au/...-futures-learning-spaces-forum

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shared by Bright Ideas on 31 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Bright Ideas on 31 Oct 10
     
    The Learning Futures / Learning Spaces Forum focused on the changes to the physical and online learning spaces in Australian schools. 
Tania Sheko

Do I Really Have to Leave the Role of School Librarian To Do the Work of a School Libra... - 2 views

theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/...the-work-of-a-school-librarian

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shared by Tania Sheko on 07 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • We’ve wondered about the future of the profession and the challenges of becoming more immersed as an instructional leader and pedagogy specialist in a current model of school librarianship that is physically limiting in the sense that one person, two at best in most places, is expected to excel in multiple roles for student populations that might vary from 850 to 2500 students and up to 100+ faculty in a building; in some cases, school librarians are being asked to be a teacher, program administrator, information specialist, leader, and instructional partner with no planning period and no clerical assistance.
  •  Like Braun, we’ve dared to wonder if we would be better positioned to accomplish the kind of change we envision in our learning ecosystems in another role, perhaps back in the classroom or some other educational role; at times, it’s felt rather blasphemous to even articulate such wonderings.    However, I think such questioning and the interrogation of our beliefs, of what we’ve held sacred both personally and as a profession, are healthy so that we can reflect thoughtfully on what we value.
  • At times, I’ve felt very disconnected from other conversations in “library land” that feel removed from my struggle to implement a vision of librarianship that has been participatory and learning focused for the last six years, a vision that I’ve tried to transparently share through this blog, presentations, published articles, webinars, and my library’s online presence, including my multimedia monthly and annual reports and research guides, I’ve been hopeful that sharing the work that I’ve done through my library program with students and teachers has shown a glimpse of what IS possible through school libraries.
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  • Participating as a co-partner in the instructional design process, which is essential for creating meaningful, rich learning experiences, and participating in all phases of the learning experiences, including formative and summative assessments,  requires a tremendous amount of care, energy, and time commitment.  Nurturing and tending to these relationships require constant care much like a garden—you can’t plant the seeds and then just assume they will grow with minimum care or attention.
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