Scary Halloween Thoughts!
What might a forward thinking Librarian fear most during this scary season?
10. Books might really go away.
9. Librarians might loose their jobs.
8. Librarian’s budget might be cut.
7. Teachers will not collaborate with Librarians nor bring their classes to the Library.
6. Students might not respect the information specialty skills of the Librarian.
5. Standardized testing will win out and only dates and dead people will be memorized.
4. Internet blockers will win and nothing will get through the filter.
3. Online Subscription Databases will get more complex instead of simpler and no one will use them.
2. Students will be so knowledgeable with personal devices that Librarians and teachers will be irrelevant.
1. Administrators will officially scoff at Web 2.0 and we will all be relegated to the world of textbooks and boredom.
0. Administration will act like they get it and approve spending money to buy the technology tools needed in the Library to allow students to create, then the purchasing process will take so long that once everything is purchased and installed in the Library it will be obsolete and students will still not use the new tools.
Knowing what we fear is the first step toward formulating plans to prevent or alleviate the circumstances of the fears. What might a Librarian do to conquer these feats?
I think the thing to constantly promote, push, remind, advertise, etc.. is to focus on student learning!
What are your fears? What solutions do you have for fears?
October 29th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
You forgot: The stack of not picked up surplus junk will mate with the stacks of uncataloged books and create the monster that ate the school library.