The dream

So, I’m rushing along a corridor to what appears to be a large boardroom, lots of panelling, tall windows, etc, where there are lots of people in suits. I  give my smiling apologies for the delay, while inside I can feel various important organs dying off one by one. Various members of the senior management [...]

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Photographer Librarian

Today, I was Photographer Librarian. I’ve attended a few rehearsals of the school show already, just to get ideas of the best bits to try and capture (like the enthusiastic snogging going on at the side of the stage – not much acting there I think) but today I just had to be completely in [...]

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Library book contract – some thoughts

We’ve heard on the grapevine that the book suppliers are being asked to tender for a library book and textbook contract. The Sunday Post has now run an article, but nothing’s been seen in the TESS yet.  I’m concerned that with a single supplier, school librarians will lose the chance to actually see the books we want to [...]

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Chuffed

Left at lunchtime on Friday to go along to Daughter’s school show (really funny and well produced), and discovered The Envelope from uni waiting for me at home. Got good comments for my final assignment so I’ve now completed my PGC APS. I’d love to continue, but the cost is just too much, for now [...]

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Shaky professionalism?

I’ve found myself muttering PDM, PDM under my breath: I’m so busy that I don’t even have time to say that work is Pure Dead Mental and have to resort to abbreviations!! Every day, another colleague walks in and asks to book more classes – just the booking is taking up huge chunks of time, [...]

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Lost in thought

New module, and it’s not what I expected. I had assumed that this would touch on multiple intelligences, learning styles etc, but it’s patently not. The main theme so far has been about making learning visible: an interesting concept. We’ve been introduced to Harvard’s Project Zero, which niggled away in the back of my mind [...]

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Learning Wall

Today was an in-service day with a focus on the Curriculum for Excellence (sorry, but the A in ACfE needs to go).  Sessions on each of the four capacities, plus me and colleague on cross-curricular themes. We wanted to make our bit interactive, and eventually settled on the Learning Wall. This was inspired by an [...]

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Interrupting the Heart of the Curriculum

There’s been a discussion on the School Librarians’ Network about how to get every department using the library. This post includes part of my contribution to the discussion (plus a lot more which I decided not to post because it sounded self-promoting. I’m quite happy showing off here though.) Because librarians all believe the library [...]

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Could you hand me a brick wall, please?

Last week I spoke to the students about how to get the best out of their school library – how to help the Librarian, what to expect in return, not forgetting “we are all individuals“. I thought my mindmap of notes just required printing, but instead it was nowhere to be seen. And I knew [...]

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Catching up

The LRC was shut for three days so allow the 1st years to do a test. At the time it was booked, I was smilingly informed that those three days would give me time to “catch up”. Yeah right. What I actually accomplished was clearing about ten shelves worth of returned books. Not reshelved them, you [...]

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