The Librain

That was the last time I will ever stick my neck out on behalf of my profession. It wasn’t worth it. All that happened was total misunderstanding and a lot of nasty flack in my direction.

So I doubt that anything will some of it, except for me personally and professionally.

So, The Librain will shut up for a while as I have nothing more to say on here. Thanks to those who commented here and also who said something positive on SLN.

This is how I felt this morning…

… a calm and happy Librain

Well, The Librain is a lot slimmer and younger than her creator! The little dragon is her daemon.

This is how I feel now…

… a really ANGRY Librain

So that is all I am worth to teachers after so many years – zilch!

• Why did I stay up late at night, working to finish things for them for the next day?
• Why did I let them book in at the last minute?
• Why did I try to learn cutting edge stuff to help them?
• Why did I write teaching materials and get them ready for observed lessons, when I had other things I needed to do?
• Why do I feel so unappreciated?

I did it for the kids…

… and for the kids I will do it again…

We can all get depressed about the Google generation and headteachers who think that libraries are obsolete -

Cheer yourself up by reading this article:

33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important by Will Sherman on the DegreeTutor site.

At the moment, I am in the middle of Year 7 Inductions. We take a whole morning (3 lessons of an hour each) to cover a general orientation, how to find and choose fiction and how to find information (including Dewey). We do use some modern methods – e.g. a whiteboard and music, but generally the sessions are largely unchanged from the kind of thing that I used to do years ago.

But the children love them!