Librarians in their efforts to meet their customers’ needs have an inclination to provide an overabundance of information. Even when the patron is satisfied and has left the library, we frequently continue the search to ensure we have uncovered all…
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Elevator Communication
Tagged with: advocacy, communication, community, connection, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarian, libraries, school librarian, School Librarian's Workshop
Posted in Librarian Life, Professional Development
Posted in Librarian Life, Professional Development
Do You Self-Assess
Most of you deal with SGOs (Student Growth Outcomes) or SLOs (Student Learning Outcomes) as a way to measure your effectiveness. These are specific performance measures relating to how you do your job. By their nature, they are about one…
Your Winning Strategy
When I blogged about writing a Mission Statement two weeks ago, I said it would help focus you so at the end of next school year you would not feel overwhelmed, exhausted and unsure of what you had accomplished. If…
Tagged with: goals, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, mission, strategic plan, strategy
Posted in Librarian Life, Professional Development
Posted in Librarian Life, Professional Development
Are You In Business
I have just returned from the New York Library Association/Section of School Librarians Conference, where I gave a presentation on tag lines, branding, and elevator speeches. Later that evening I was speaking with one of the participants who said she…
Leadership Is Not An Option
ALA and AASL along with other divisions work hard promoting the value of libraries and librarians with legislators, the community, along with the various partnerships they have built over the years. If these efforts are to succeed, librarians need to…
Tagged with: AASL, community, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, leader, leading, librarian, librarians, libraries, library, mentoring
Posted in Librarian Life, Professional Development
Posted in Librarian Life, Professional Development
Changes – Either you’re changing…
There are still reminders of the season that was and some days the air has a chill, but winter has past and spring has arrived. The seasons change, and we all welcome it. Yet in our own lives we resist…
Developing Essential Or Guiding Questions
Nearly a year ago (January 6, 2014) I blogged on Questions and Answers, pointing out that good answers showed understanding of the topic covered, while good questions demonstrated the ability to take the concepts learned and seek to explore it…
Tagged with: common core, essential questions, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarian, librarians, School Librarian's Workshop
Posted in Librarian Life, Professional Development
Posted in Librarian Life, Professional Development
Libraries, Librarians, and Learning in the 21st Century
I have just returned the AASL Forum on School Librarians in the Anytime Anywhere Learning Landscape and as usual for this intense two-day institute I am precariously balanced between the excitement of new ideas (and old ones in new guises)…
Tagged with: AASL, availability, getting work done, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarian, librarians, libraries, library, special environment, support
Posted in Career, Professional Development
Posted in Career, Professional Development