Sherry Gick: Connected Educators

Sherry has been an intermediate-school librarian for five years. In her post on 9/30/13 she relates her story of finding links to the library world. For the first two years of her librarian job she relied on list servs to guide her. Then she found Twitter --she cites this link as her inspiration in 2010.
    http://www.edudemic.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-connected-educator/      

A worthwhile read for school librarians knowing they have to reach out to a larger virtual network for their professional learning. This blog entry of Sherry's and her reference to the link above will give you some guidance.                                           

Cathy Jo Nelson: Book Clubs

Librarians always want to work in a book club or two in their year. Lunch time is when most of our students are available, but it's also a socializing period with peers. Librarians seeking to hold a book club during lunch period have to offer something pretty enticing. Cathy Jo discusses in a recent post the channels she traveled to find the best way to hold lunch-time book clubs. She learned it was to plan one or two lunches in the semester that she could coordinate with her admin/cafeteria manager to be 'catered'. She set the dates and advertised early among students, required 'reservations' and students signed on early to attend--spend their lunch hour discussing the book while lunching on pizza or deli sandwiches/chips.

No need to reinvent the wheel on book clubs; I'm following Nelson's thoughts. Let's make book clubs alluring--advertise to students the title, where they can get the book, and they will reserve a place at the catered luncheon for book discussion.

http://blog.cathyjonelson.com/  (Dec. 16/13)