Those of you who collaborate or cooperate regularly with teachers, who introduce new technology resources, and who use your library website and social media to promote your program are being leaders. Many more of you are doing much of this…
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Managing and Leading – A Powerful Combination
Tagged with: community, connection, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, leadership, leading, librarians, libraries, management, managing, school librarian, School Librarian's Workshop
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Elevator Communication
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…
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
It’s Your Mission
The school year is over—or just about for some of you. How do you feel as you look back on it? Do you have a sense of accomplishment over what you have achieved? Or are you tired and exhausted, able…
Tagged with: 21st century learning, community, connection, goal setting, goals, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarian, librarians, libraries, library, mission, school librarian, School Librarian's Workshop, students
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Show and Tell
Do you remember “show and tell” from grade school? You would bring something you valued to share with your classmates, letting them see the object as you talked about it. Depending on what you brought, you might explain how it…
Tagged with: community, connection, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarian, librarians, libraries, library, school librarian, School Librarian's Workshop, working with your principal
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Librarians and the Pareto Principle
Have you noticed that around 20% of your teachers constitute 80% of the collaboration projects you develop. This is the Pareto Principle. Named after Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist who observed in 1906 that 80% of Italy’s wealth was owned…
Tagged with: community, connection, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarian, librarians, libraries, library, school librarian, School Librarian's Workshop, teachers, working with teachers
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
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
Cooperation vs. Collaboration
School librarians are quite specific about the difference between cooperation and collaboration. In the first case, the librarian and the teacher work independently from each other but share a common direction with each contributing content or process based on what…
Tagged with: 21st century learning, AASL, community, connection, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarian, school librarian, School Librarian's Workshop
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Posted in Career, Librarian Life
Defining and Supporting Literacy
It once was simple in the days before apps and the Internet. When all information came by way of books, magazines, and newspapers. Literacy was easy to define. It meant you were able to read and understand printed matter. Functional…
Tagged with: AASL, ala, American Library Association, community, Hilda K Weisburg, librarians, libraries, literacy, reading, school librarian, technology
Posted in Librarian Life, Uncategorized
Posted in Librarian Life, Uncategorized
ThanksGIVING
With Thanksgiving Day approaching, I am focused on the second half of the word. One of the best ways to be thankful is to give back. As educators we do this every day. We work hard to reach as many…
Tagged with: community, connection, giving, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarian, librarians, libraries, library, thanksgiving
Posted in General, Librarian Life
Posted in General, Librarian Life
Emotion “sells” better than Logic
The most supremely logical Mr. Spock, from the Star Trek series I adored from the very first, says in one episode, “It’s not logical, but it’s true.” As librarians we need to take those words to heart in order to…
Tagged with: community, connection, Hilda K Weisburg, Hilda Weisburg, librarian, librarians, libraries, library, outreach, school librarian, School Librarian's Workshop
Posted in Issues, Librarian Life
Posted in Issues, Librarian Life