Library Management

Library Management

I found it interesting that library management was left to the end of the unit and that it wasn’t  a very large module. I always thought the management of the library was one of the main roles of the TL. Perhaps it is time to rethink!

I was very interested to read in Gary Hartzell’s (2003) Building Influence for the School Librarian; Tenets, Targets, & Tactics, the parallels he draws between the principal’s job of school admin and the TLs job of library admin. He sees it as a valuable contact point. I’ll have to file that away for the future.

     

I found the recommended sites and articles Karen Bonanno's site, Pappas' guide & Spence’s to be very informative and worth saving to the Favourites. I particularly liked Spence’s short and to the point article. I found I could easily relate to her 5 elements of management:

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1. Knowing your learning community
2. Professional knowledge
3. Initiative and proactivity
4. People skills and pragmatism
5. Attention to detail & documentation
She is an author I will continue to follow as I find her style easy to read her ideas are very practical and I particularly like her idea for the documentation strategy, the "team statement" that she has used successfully to fight proposed staffing cuts. Well worth saving for future reference! http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/rblonline/librarymanagement/libmanage.htm