Wow...What is my role? Is it supporting technology? Is it helping teachers to implement technology into their classrooms? Is it developing a library that best meets the informational and literacy needs of our students? Or, is it to support the audio visual needs of our district? Well, believe it or not, it’s all of the above. The old fashion practices of a librarian are now almost 100% obsolete and the ability to be open to the ever changing world of information and technology is of utmost importance in meeting the needs of our school district.
When I first started at GLPS in 2003 about 80% of my time was devoted to library work. This work consisted of cataloging, shelving, ordering and checking in and out books. About 20% of my time was dealing with blown overhead projector bulbs, setting up the two multi-media projector/anchor weights for presentations, wheeling a TV cart and VCR to a classroom and making sure inappropriate websites weren’t being accessed on the nine colorful and huge Apple computers in the Media Center. 10 years later I can, with certainty, tell you that we’ve done a 180 degree turn and I now spend most of my time dealing with technology, technology integration and information literacy and a small amount doing “library work”.
As times change and technology enables greater access to resources it is important that the Media Center adapt to what student and teacher current needs are. This helps to not only keep the media center relevent but to also keep student learning and research skills relevent.
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