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Title: Activating New Partnerships in Support of School Libraries.
Author : Teacher Librarian
Release Date : January 01, 1999
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 182 KB

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In the daily efforts of developing school library programs, there is no one better able to bring about change than a teacher-librarian working in partnership with administrators, classroom teachers and students. The frontline is where the goals of school library policies and programs are realized. At the same time, there are other players "beyond the frontline", who have key roles to play in facilitating that change, in supporting school-based efforts and in championing the integrated school library program. My colleague, Judy Davies, and I spent over 20 years on the frontline as teacher-librarians in two successful elementary school library resource centers in Prince Edward Island. During the past few years, we have left those frontline positions and accepted new positions--Judy, as a consultant with the Department of Education and me, as a teacher educator at the University of Prince Edward Island. Throughout the transition from "being" a teacher-librarian to facilitating the role of teacher-librarians, I have been struck by the similarities in the work we do now and what we did as teacher-librarians and by how that frontline experience informs and influences our new work. This article outlines some of the similarities in the roles of the teacher-librarian, curriculum consultant, teacher educator and administrators in general, and then describes new partnerships that can be nurtured when frontline teacher-librarians move into other educational roles.