Throughout the LIBS 602 course I have come across many blogs posts, tweets, and pins about school librarians. I currently follow several different school librarian Pinterest boards and have found countless resources available to me as I learn and explore the tools used in this class. The day I stumbled across Adventures of Library Girl I was in heaven! I loved this blog and it gave me great ideas not only for the assignments I was working on, but ideas for my upcoming school year and future as a Library Media Specialist.
Since I am already familiar with and follow Adventures of Library Girl, I explored the other blogs and really enjoyed The Unquiet Librarian. Not only was the layout calm and easy for me to follow, but I also found the content be high quality and relevant to me as I progress through the Library Media Specialist endorsement program. The first post I came across was about makerspaces, which was perfect because it was fresh in my mind from our campus visit to ODU. I love the idea of makerspaces in school libraries and the Skype session with Mae Craddock really motivated me to learn more about how to incorporate this idea into an elementary school library.
The most recent post from The Unquiet Librarian titled, "Growing Learning Communities Through School Libraries and Makerspaces - Creating, Constructing, Collaborating, Contributing" really helped break down what makerspaces are through a slideshow that included definitions, purposes, examples, website resources, and images showing students using the makerspace in her library. It was a perfect combination of concrete information that helped drive home the importance and benefit of having makerspaces available to students and teachers in the school. Further exploration into this blog showed me other great resources, such as using Vine videos to show an explanatory conversation, students at work, or a demonstration.
I look forward to following more of The Unquiet Librarian and incorporating these ideas into my future library!
Sources
Adventures of Library Girl. (2014). Blog. Retrieved July 26, 2014, from http://www.librarygirl.net/.
The Unquiet Librarian. (2014). Blog. Retrieved July 26, 2014, from http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/.
I really like The Unquiet Librarian as well. I'll have to check out Adventures of Library Girl too. It will certainly be helpful to read current blogs to stay up to date with what's going on in library world while we're working on endorsements!
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