Summary:
The research book Engaging with the Learning and Teaching Environment explores the importance of having librarians in our schools. It addresses how librarians play an important role in our schools and how their knowledge in specific fields can be linked to bringing the success to our schools and the success of our students. As noted in the book(2004,p.10), traditionally, librarians may have a knowledge in one field only but over time, it has changed. Now librarians cover a wider subject in a specific subject. The librarian's familiarity with Internet searching and metadata offers opportunities for skills practitioners to apply accurate and helpful descriptions resources. Rikosksi quoted in Sturgers (Sturges,2001 p.66) sees a new role for the subject librarians as providing a "bridge" between the subject matter and the emerging technologies.
Review:
After budget cuts, our school has faced a crisis. One of many issues we faced was not having a librarian. I have a total of 150 students and many of them depend on the library for important research projects, homework assignments, and computers. Before the budget cuts, we had a wonderful librarian who brightened our school with early announcements in the morning, was a support system for our school that was always there to schedule library meetings for our students, as well as someone we went to when we, the teachers, didn't have the resources for help.
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ReplyDeleteGreetings Najah,
Of course, I agree librarians are vital to a positive school climate! I don’t know if you remember, I am an elementary school librarian, in addition to teaching reading intervention! Librarians are now often referred to as information media specialist. I am actually only paid as and educational assistant (EA). There are many highly qualified teachers working as EA in my district because they wish o live in Gunnison and are hoping to earn teaching positions through their sacrifice and dedication to our district.
I have noticed that you have references but not hyper-links. Are you having difficulty with this? Or is it because you are using entire books to research your project? Please let me know via our course blackboard email if I can help you with this. I hope this finds you well and you are feeling confident in your direction of action research project!
Best wishes!
Sonya