CEESA Librarian Job-A-Like – Dina Abizaid

I went to Librarians-Job-A-Like and  talked about Library as the place for the community and library as a place. We discussed the strategies what will be the best thing for the library to do. And I believe we do everything here at IICS that can be done. Library as the community involves: Family reading nights, Coffee Mornings book chats, Do research sessions with Hight Schools. We would like to do the morning book chats and/or family reading nights. The issue here is the distance (our location unfortunately is not the best for many families).   We also discussed the Maker Space, it is a lego wall or a corner in the library where kids create and make things. It will be a great idea in the future if we have a bigger space! These are the links of article we discussed! Mission Creep is Killing LibrariesTurning the School Library into a Community HubLibrarians Changing Roles Inspire Schools   Another great session that I visited was “The Power of Empathy” by Judy Saruhan. How to have non-violent communications and have persistent arguments. It is a great session and I wish we had more time on this topic. I know Judy presented her session at Hisar. Maybe  it will be also useful to do that here at Marmara for many Teachers and TA as one of the PD in the future. During the session I witnessed that there are some teachers at other schools do not know how to communicate with peers and students and thus this PD will be useful.   Finally, another good thing we can offer to our school teachers as PD is research skills. I noticed that most students and teachers are using non-academic sources for their research. So library and maybe IT together can offer some PD in that.