Spring Thinking
Spring Break is here! I face one week where I will only work 1 job, not 2 so the question on my mind is “How shall I use my time?” Of course, my first response is to savor the silence of mornings to think.
I want to think about how school librarians could and should be learning about, planning for, initiating, and evaluating Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 initiatives.
I want to think about the best and SIMPLEST way to use a wiki to compose sample letters to legislators to use within my state and for AASL’s legislation committee. How can I take our thoughts and translate them into ideas and models? What will it take to get each person to personally respond legislatively?
I want to think about and DO the planning for the Tennessee Association of School Librarians (TASL)’s Library & Literacy Forum in June. How can we best plan for activities to inspire all constituents to THINK about the role school librarians play in literacy?
I want to think about how to enable school librarians across the country to have a voice through their representatives to the AASL Affiliate Assembly (which I will chair at ALA Annual). How can we enable this grassroots movement to express everyone’s opinion while not alienating the organizational structure of AASL?
What else is on my list for fun activities?
* Finish the school improvement plan
* Finish reviewing books for a publisher
* Finish reading the titles on the VSBA award list for 2007-8
* Detail the TASL Advocacy Committee plan
* Play cards & games with my teens
* Visit the new neighborhood Petsmart with my dogs (Check!)
* Send out invitations to TASL’s Forum
* Speak at Trevecca about professionalism (Check!)
* Plan an information literacy one-day course I will teach this summer
* Eat lots of peanut-butter cups
* Pay bills
* Clean
I’m sure the last 2 items are the ones I least want to do, so I will focus my time on thinking.
