Keeping Your Library Relevant When Your School Goes 1:1 (part 2): Helping Teachers Facilitate a Digital Classroom

This post is Part 2 of Making Your Library Relevant When Your School Goes 1:1 (see first post here).  So, why do we as librarians need to know about tools like these? They are going to help us have staying power with our staff and students when all students have their own devices and may …

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Welcoming Staff & Students Back to School

Hi Friends! Pretty sure I'm in the majority when I say I do my best to welcome my students into the library at the beginning of the year. There's bulletin boards, displays, intros to new programs, and so much more! I also do my best to welcome my staff. Not sure about you, but I'm constantly trying to reinforce to my staff that the library is not the same place at the library we experienced when we were kids. Unless there is testing, I never SHH my students. We are more than just for checkout. So I created two things for back to school this year that I wanted to share with you: one is specifically for new staff and the other is for both staff and students.