![]() Some librarians are science fans, some read only classic literature, some read CNN daily, and some only read The Onion. Give us a little time and we can probably find you that article on some ancient philosopher that you learned about that year you thought you wanted to be a philosophy major before you switched to biology. ![]() But, we do know where we can FIND everything. We do this without worrying about it lunch isn’t as important as helping someone find the right resource. Some of us will just keep the library open during our lunchtime to allow students and teachers access to the library (just because we’re eating doesn’t mean you don’t need something). If we’re lucky, we can read while eating lunch … unless, of course, that time is also for helping students and teachers. Most of our time is taken up with helping students and teachers. Maybe we haven’t tried it, but we’d probably be happy to test it out with you. Maybe we’ve already tried it and we can give you advice. If you have a new Web 2.0 tool that you want to try, ask us. We can teach students how to do almost anything that has to do with basic computer skills, and we can teach teachers how to use productive tools to add to lessons, or new ways of having students show what they have learned (isn’t grading papers getting a little boring?). ![]() We can try to troubleshoot whatever issue you have before you bother the people in the technology department. We love eBooks, iPads, apps, electronic journals, Web 2.0 everything we can get our hands on to help students, we’ll at least try it out. The printed page may die at some point (most of us hope it won’t). We might know a resource for 3 rd graders that you can use for your struggling 7 th graders (or a resource for 7 th graders that you can use with your advanced 3 rd graders). Email us with your lesson plans so we can jump in and say “I have an article you can add” or “Bring the class down, I can show them this resource.” We can even build new lesson plans with teachers. We love to see students collaborating, but we also love to collaborate with you, our classroom teachers! Let us know what you’re doing in class. Work alone at home work together in the library. This isn’t to say we don’t appreciate students working alone or a student reading alone, but the library is a common place where everyone can work together and communicate. We would rather have a loud library with tables of students and teachers talking about a book, project, essay, collectible card game, what-have-you, than a library with students just sitting there reading. ![]() Quiet means that no one is collaborating. That may have been the case a long time ago, and may still be the case with some dinosaur librarians (they still exist, sorry!), but generally, librarians don’t like quiet. Oh, sure, the typical view of a librarian is an older woman, in a cardigan and cat-eye glasses, with a tight bun, shushing everyone who dares to make a sound. ![]()
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