Sunday, March 9, 2008

Week 6 - Thing #15

Away from Icebergs is a perspective that really hit home with me. The students that use our school libraries have changed so dramatically in the last five years and we need to change with them. Too many times I hear librarians stubbornly refusing to meet the students where they are in retrieving information and how they want to use the library. In the name of protecting our physical libraries, we deny the changes that will take place with or without us.

We also have to get past the stereotype of what a school library atmosphere is like. We know that learning is active and not necessarily quiet. So our libraries need to places where students meet and collaborate and learn.

I want to take this perspective and expand it and create a vision for my Library 2.0.

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