The begining

Hello and welcome to my blog. I have one mandate for this record which is to discuss what it means to be a teacher- librarian today. Many things we would think of as the core of the profession may or may not change. To say what is a teacher librarian today suggest there is some difference to the way things were in the past. Technology is of course the elephant in the room. Librarians very much deal with the access, storage and collection of information. This takes on new forms in the information age. Some would suggest that today the librarians position is compromised by users easy access to large amounts of resources on the home computer or in the palm of thier hand. It may be biased and it may be a stretch to make the comparisson that if there are more fires in the world this does not mean we need fewer fire fighters. The opposite would be true. I think of the internet public library or ipl, at first I assumed it would be some library type website that had access to ebooks, full access databases and materials we can pull off the website. The IPL is not that though. The IPL organizes, vets and authenticates websites that are publiclly available to you by searching google. Some people may enjoy having someone else do the work of deciding what is authoritative, what is credible. Some of us have a habit of not trusting another persons view on what is authoritative or what is credible information. Librarians can send students or others to appropriate websites often times even finding or telling a person exactly what sites to use. As teachers it is also our job to show people how to verify information, how to be discerning of information so they may find sources themselves if they're not willing to just take our word for what the truth is.