"Our best librarians will evolve, adapt, and thrive in effective schools." -Joyce Kasman Valenza and Doug Johnson, School Library Journal, 10/1/2009Things That Keep Us Up at Night enumerates the issues that are a concern (or should be a concern) to school teacher/librarians:
- economic shifts
- intellectual property shifts
- the challenge of keeping ahead
- failing to embrace networked media
- advocacy by nonlibrarians
- national expectations that ignore critical learning skills
- missing the potential of reading 2.0
- realizing that Internet access is an intellectual freedom issue
- recognize that modern practice is directly connected to equity
- we are bigger than databases
- define the brand
- plan for one-to-one computing or ubiquitous computing
- become an online presence
- see obstacles rather than opportunities
- the lack of urgency in our profession
Joyce and Doug have issued a warning and a challenge: embrace the change in our profession or face irrelevancy and obsolescence. We're at a critical juncture; we can become a part of the new information landscape or fade into obscurity.
What will you choose?
"There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something." -Thomas Edison
"Alice looking for Wonderland" by micheleart
