The Librain

Well, I have not posted here for a long time because so much has been happening professionally and personally. Totally out of the blue really, the perfect (I hope) job opportunity came up that I could not ignore. I had thought that I would stay at my present post until the Grim Reaper came for me!

I set up this blog to enable me to track the developments of the LRC as we moved into the Web 2.0 and School Library 2.0 era. So, I now need to think how I am going to use the blog in my new role.

So - what am I going to be doing? From September, I will be The Librarian (love the title!) in a school where the Library (love the name!) needs refurbishment. Because I will be working on my own, I will be going back to basics again. The refurb will take place in the summer of 2009, so I have a whole year to help the school plan. In the meantime, I will have to do the following (not necessarily in this order):

• Assess the current state of the Library to get the base-line.
• Learn an unfamiliar LMS.
• Stock-take and weed the current stock.
• Clean, cover, label and re-catalogue the stock that is staying.
• Put in place basic library management procedures.
• Get out and meet the staff and pupils.
• Get the staff and pupils excited about the prospect of a new Library.
• Put in monitoring and evaluation systems.

… and so on.

So, will my current interests in the development of technologies go on hold for the time being?

I don’t think so. Because the stock appears to be unable to meet the needs of staff and pupils, I can see that I will be using ICT in, hopefully, innovative ways to give the school a library service that they have not had before.

I need to make an impact, to show the school community just what a Librarian can offer.

Warch this space…