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Build a manifesto with me. You know you're a 21st century teacher-librarian if . . .

June 27, 2007 Greetings again from the ISTE conference in Atlanta.  I am working hard to process what I’ve learned.  More on all that soon.  (I am not cut out for live blogging.)

Yesterday I was honored to sit on a panel with some of my heroes: Alice Yucht, Larry Johnson, David Warlick, Liz Perez, and Doug Johnson, at the SIGMS Forum: The Changing Landscape of 21st Century Information Centers.

For my 15 minutes, I presented a manifesto I originally wrote last summer--one I continue to edit.  I wanted to share it with those of you who could not make the conference.  Please, dear reader, help me edit it with your comments! 

You may also visit the wiki and edit there.  I will report back with an aggregated manifesto. 

(Because this blogging software limits the number of characters I can use, please continue reading in the next post!)

It all started at our state leadership summit when a young librarian stood up and said:

I just got out of library school and I don't know what I should be doing.  Everyone out there is doing different stuff.  Some folk focus on cataloging.  Others do mostly reading promotion.  Some of you are working hard on websites.  Some of you do 2.0.  What does this job really look like?

I stayed up that night and began to describe what I think my job should and will look like.  I continue to edit this.

You know you are a 21st century school librarian if you . . .

(Continued in the next posts!)

Posted by Joyce Valenza Ph.D on June 27, 2007 | Comments (0)