Presentation from AASL Learning Commons, October 27, 2011

1. School librarian image: What it is and what to do about it… Wendy Stephens Buckhorn High School New Market, Ala. @wsstephens wstephens at madison.k12.al.us

9. Our image problem is real

10. Show students learning….

11. … not us posing…

12. … or looking bored or superfluous.

14. Never let them photograph the library without students in the picture...

17. Be psychic

18. Delight in the fixed schedule

19. Get a guru

20. (or, better yet, gurus)

21. Introduce your faculty and students to new technologies

22. Learn the local technologies

23. Advocate for student-owned hardware

24. Keep a finger in every pie

25. Reading is social

26. Reading is social

28. Reading is social

31. Read more than ever

34. Let readers drive acquisitions

36. and programming

37. Recommender systems include human systems

39. Fake it

40. and fresh required reading options

41. Admit the fallibility of print.

42. Realize advocacy fatigue exists

43. Provide opportunities

44. Help redefine abilities

46. School librarian image: What it is and what to do about it… Wendy Stephens Buckhorn High School New Market, Ala. @wsstephens wstephens at madison.k12.al.us