The Librain

Great collection of images put together using Animoto by Shamblesguru!

Again, I have been neglecting this blog too much this year and promise to do something to improve my use of it over the next few months. A friend said recently that some are “missing my voice” – a rather apt phrase as I will explain later! This has been an interesting and sometimes frustrating [...]

The Future of Reading was the title of the Literacy Forum held at the Education Show on Friday 5th March. It was a very enjoyable and informative day – giving me plenty to think about as I plan the development of our new library! It seems clear that we are at a cusp in terms [...]

If you have never read this blog before, or don’t know me, then maybe you need some background before reading about my day. As I write, I am sitting in a lovely new library that was only opened in October 2009. I was appointed, in September 2008, as the first professional librarian in this small [...]

Again, it is some time since I posted here. I must admit that I have found the last few weeks very difficult professionally – not in my own job, but in the wider profession of school librarianship. Anyone passing by this blog, wondering about my reaction to recent announcements, will have to contact me privately [...]

As we have recently had a lot of new members over on the Ning, I just want to write something more about it. First of all, it has not been made as a result of recent controversies over on SLN, but was created by Yin Doran (a.k.a. Elfin) after the fantastic online course that I [...]

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.