Condensed version without explanatory notes/slides or examples carol kearney leadership retreat, ithaca, ny | august 2011

1. transformational strategies for
school librarians
buffy j. hamilton | carol kearney leadership retreat, ithaca, ny | august 2011
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3. challenges that threaten to detour our
mission

4. shifting roles
in the educational
landscape

5. money and funding

6. social media
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7. demands on time
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8. a climate that values standardized test scores
over inquiry

9. filtering fears are debilitating to
our growth
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10. believing books are our brand and will
determine our future
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11. pulling and weaving together the
many threads of librarianship
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13. we can decide which approach we will
take to these challenges

14. we can choose to accept the lemons we’ve been
handed

15. or we can make lemonade
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16. “innovation is the ability to see change as an
opportunity - not a threat”
william pollard
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17. how do we
transform
ourselves and
libraries?
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18. create enchantment and
engagement in our communities
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19. trustworthiness
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20. likability
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21. fantastic product or
service
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22. enchantment:
sustained,
voluntary
delight that is
mutually
beneficial
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23. “enchantment
transforms
situations and
relationships.”
Guy Kawasaki,
Enchantment: The Art of Changing
Hearts, Minds, and Actions
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24. library is the story
of the human
experience
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25. libraries as communal experiences and
“commonplace” texts constructed by
participants
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26. libraries as sites of the experience of self-excavation
and discovery through learning
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28. enchantment is the nectar
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29. vanishing
boundaries

30. 1
create and nurture a
participatory culture that
invites conversations for
learning,
multiple forms
of literacy, and
multiple modes
of learning

31. make our practice transparent to the
world
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32. embed yourself in the instructional
design process
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33. 4 leave your
silos
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34. 5
energize and expand your mind and spirit by
plugging into the wisdom of the crowd and
growing your personal learning network
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35. embrace your role as a fearless advocate for
intellectual freedom and equitable access to all
forms of information
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36. 7
help our students learn multiple ways of reading and
writing today’s world by acting as sponsors of
transliteracy

37. 8
be willing to go out on the limb
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38. 9 engage in action
and reflection
to grow and
evolve
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39. embrace a sense of play
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41. “learning and innovation go hand in hand.
The arrogance of success is to think that
what you did yesterday will be sufficient
for tomorrow.”
william pollard

42. inquiry begins with
ourselves: why am I
doing this?

43. transforming our
practice will
transform our
profession and lives of
those we serve
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44. embed

45. empower

46. engage

47. enchant

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49. contact information
@buffyjhamilton
buffy.hamilton@gmail.com
http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com
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