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Also here the concept of the community is important. Our services are intended to create opportunities in our community and outside the community: for our learners to improve reading , inquiry, ATL, their IB learner’s attributes, all the multiliteracies ; for our teachers to improve their ATT. In all this I like to think about my role as ambassador of the international mindedness: having experienced what it means to move in another country, to have to learn other two languages, to discover other cultures and other perspectives it gives me an ambitious desire to act to make a difference in our community.
I start by my planning of how our resources will include other languages, to partecipate actively to our international days, to involve language B teachers to our activities in the libraries.
My next wish project is a book of stories in multiple languages made by our students, and a funny project of a recipes book made by our families-I still have to got an approval about this-...

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The  most visible impact of our role are the collections: it is easy to imagine a librarian cataloguing, coordinating and distributing resources.
Here, I like to think how our role in this influences our students, their learning achievement, their personal development: deciding to buy a collection about bullying,  another about comics and graphic novels, constantly knowing what we are missing relating our units of inquiry, being up to date about new resources, being inclusive in our choices, considering diverse books.

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The libraries\ians extend to all learning places: as we said in different posts we find ourself doing activities all around school’s places and outside them. As we aid and extend learning and teaching in these spaces (virtual and physical) we modify them, constantly.
And I like that this concept is connected with the needs  of our community.
A simple example is when we observe the way our students use the library and we act to redesign  the library to make the place more comfortable, more welcoming, more attractive: I think about display boards, pillows, shelves rearrangement or, I already talked about this, the idea of making the library a place  for the students to recharge  maybe before the exams.

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Regarding people, communication skills are fundamental if we have to share and communicate  vision, make planning with the entire community and collaborate with teachers and learners. Sometimes (always?)we have a role of coordinators even when it is not officially recognised.
Activities as contacting a public library to collaborate with, organize events with families to celebrate student’s achievement-reading aloud their creations-organize contests to energize learners’ enthusiasm, suggest new resources and show effectively how they can help students and teachers: these are all activities that require a very good communication skills.
I like this idea of the COMMUNITY:
We are in the community, for the community and we connect all the actors of the community

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Places
Each class also had a school with a "class library." What you bought with the library budget should go to the library, but what you bought with the class budget was arranged by class. Some students were tired of coming to the library and some preferred the class library. The structure had to be more restrictive than the library, but it was a clear indication of the students' preferences. Although it was small, it fulfilled the function of a library. There were many books and manga about caring for animals and plants in my class.
Classroom libraries may also be useful for students of this age (kindergarten and lower grades), who may be a little earlier in the general library. Libraries have the potential to be deployed anywhere, regardless of size.
Recently, the online library has become popular. With it, users can access it from anywhere and be a library anywhere.

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The librarian always worked closely with the homeroom teacher, knew the outline of the project, and prepared the appropriate materials. For example, global warming issues and nuclear power plant issues.
Due to physical limitations in gathering materials, I also researched online resources in advance and listed them. In this way, the librarian must be in the position of being a co-leader.
We asked volunteers to make inventory and to cover new books. We recruited volunteers from parents.
At another school, a student-parent? library committee was organized to enlighten books and organize calligraphers after school. They could also be called members of the library. At present school students have a limited timetable, but it might be nice to have something like a library committee.
At the current IB school, one is assigned to the PYP library and one is assigned to the MYP and DP libraries.

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This is where the library is evaluated in their service, how the library meets the need of the school community. Catering the available resources is an important role to play as a resource coordinator. As a resource’s coordinator, I always tend to be a multi-tasker, but it challenges me some time to focus on my priority rather than putting hands in everything. Multitasking may divert us from our daily work what we support to be doing to provide effective service in the school community. We as program leaders cater the resources in line with UOI, ATL, and LPs collaborating with the subject.

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Collection development is one of the biggest tasks of the librarians, I in my library always follow the acquisition and requisition policy to develop the collection. As a library, we need to have a collection development and management policy in hand to acquire and procure the resources to implement and meet the needs of the curriculum. Ones the procurement of the resources is done, then curating them and catalysing would be an ongoing process to put them in their proper place.

I spend 65 % of my annual budget for the library since my library is small targeting thousand to two thousand books every year.

In my library selection process plays an important role, I enroll different departments in it, like, to select books on critical thinking, a philosophy I engage TOK teachers, global issues. I also engage students to provide their monthly wish list to have better experience in reading. I always manage to balance the collection by keeping the need of all the departments.

For new arrival, I always follow some of the sites to check new books in the market and their reviews, I mostly follow Goodreads, Gatesnotes (bill gates blog) and title waves.

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Places always matter when it comes to learning environments. I think we need to understand the psychology of the users keeping their cultural and social background in mind. when infrastructure is good to support their personal and group studies it would always be a positive point to attract users to a peaceful place to spend time more than they spend in any corner of the school.

I believe we can set up a small collection of books in every corner of the school to support it, users, whether its classroom, staff room, and cafeteria of the school operated directly from the school. In my former school, we were struggling with the group of students who often get non-academic periods on daily, inviting them into to library was a hectic task sometimes, so we build a room for their personal studies where they can use the space as a cafeteria, we had put library resources there like magazines textbooks and other needed material having a teacher to supervise them all the time.

Other aspects of the libraries are e-libraries, online libraries where all the curated resources are available for its user to browse from anywhere without the time and place limitations. IB library/ians are good with the implementation of the technical tools to provide its user a good feel of the resources. The use of online resources has increased this time due to the pandemic then earlier.

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Traditional thinking about the library/ian is like a one-man army job. it's no more in 21st-century libraries. Now the libraries are a combination of people who work for the development and effective engagement of a good learning place in the learning process, such as school management, library committee, teachers, and students.

Management is always keen on the development of the library and its system to provide a wide range of facilities working closely with librarians. Teachers and librarians work on the collaboration to deliver the quality in line with UOI. Each member of the learning community is a care-taker of their learning space rather than a librarian to look after its responsibilities of collection each and every time.

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I will try to categorize our current services into 6+1 frameworks:

1. Curating

Make plan and purchasing list of resources based on the request from teachers/students or suggestion from distributors, negotiate with admins, contact to publishers/distributors to place orders, add resources to library system, remove out-of-date resources

2. Caretaking

Maintain and preserve resources and equipments, listen to inquiries from students/teachers/parents, intervene in conflicts between users

3. Catalyzing

Displaying resources/tools/photos to introduce some specific topics

4. Connecting

Connect students and teachers to information they need, and related information it may help them, introduce available resources out of school(public/academic library, museums, News In Education activities)

5. Co-creating

Attend collaborative meeting to know what support is required in each class

6. Challenging

Give annual library orientation by level to teach library rule, classification, and how to use online resource, plan and implement awards promote reading,

+1 Catering

Put a set of books related to the UOI(in PYP) in the classroom library. Is this catering?

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Collection in IB library should be consist of:

-physical resources(books, periodicals, magazines, journals, audiovisual media)

-virtual resources(ebooks, online resources such as databases, encyclopedias, articles)

As IB learners are required to be aware of the global context, offering them broad and updated information is essential. Big advantage of having virtual resources is the immediacy. You can find the latest and reliable article about COVID-19 on some databases.

In our library, whose collection is very small, virtual resources will be a great help. However, as long as the library is a physical space to welcome users, we should have more physical resources to support and inspire them. Paradoxically, in the library, people can access the resource which is well-organized by the classification, without turning on their devices.

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Physical and virtual library

Physical and virtual libraries complement each other. In addition to physical resources, virtual libraries and online resources are necessary for school libraries especially small ones like us. Users can access millions of books at any time and any place. Nowadays, online resources have proven themselves as extended learning space.

However, the value of library/ians should be more important in this digital age because the users need to be guided and instructed to access the information they need.

Multicultural and multilingual environment

As we promote multicultural and multilingual learning, our library is the place to provide mother tongue support for students coming from other countries. Since the majority of our students are Japanese, students from overseas are a kind of minority in our school. For them, reading books written in their first language must be meaningful. It also inspires other students to find diversity.

Catering to the Classroom library?

In our school, for PYP, a set of books related to a unit is placed in the classroom library at the beginning of the unit to provoke students' interest. I wonder if it is considered as a catering which is stated as a less effective practice in Ideal libraries: A guide for schools.

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In our school, people who coordinate the activities of the library are:

-Librarians

We collect and preserve resources, connect users to information, support curriculum, and care of users

-Teachers

They are involved in the library by suggesting about collection and planning collaborative activities

-Students volunteer

They help librarians organize bookshelves, and lead projects to promote reading among students

-Parents volunteer

They give storytelling regularly

-Volunteer from community

We can invite storytellers who read aloud in local language

We can borrow resources from local library and museum

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The library/ian should ideally be a hub for information. He or she should know where the information is to be found, to better aid students and teachers in their inquiries. The job is to facilitate this flow of information. In addition, a very important role of the library is as a safe and including space. It is a space for serendipitous learning.

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In our school, the collection connected to the curriculum is only a small part of the library. I have chosen to focus on fiction and non-fiction in order to create a welcoming atmosphere. Those types of collections encourage browsing and serendipity in a way which the curriculum doesn't.

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The library cannot be constrained within four walls. It needs to be everpresent in all rooms in the school. This does not just include the physical rooms, but also the digital and mental rooms.

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IB curriculums can be taught by building information networks both inside and outside the school community. Efforts are needed to supports and energizes reading, inquiry, multiliteracies, approaches to learning, approaches to teaching, and learner profile development.

Libraries and librarians need to communicate with school community members for this.

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This is the most important part for IB education. Resources on multiple topics, through various types of media materials, students and teachers can effectively teach and learn.

The library's collections include not only printed books and papers, but also many digital materials such as e-books, articles in electronic journals.

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The library is a place where students and teachers can get creative ideas. It would be better if it was always comfortable and cozy. Anyone who wants to use information in IB education can use the library. They can use not only physical space, but also online space such as digital library and online DB. In IB education, the library should be a place where there is no space-time limitation.

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Librarians support teaching and learning by students and teachers, and participate in research. Librarians can also be a resource. Librarians need to continue studying with passion to be a good resource.

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As the foundations of the system stated, libraries have to aid and extend to all learning spaces, classrooms, performance spaces, virtual platforms or other places, library shouldn't be static.
Based on my understanding, we should build this place as multi-founctional area, with equipments that can support us for not only reading purposes.
Learners/teachers can choose their places for researching, so wireless internet or computer area should be provided for online searching.
Learners/teachers may also have the needs for discussion/workshop, then an enclosed area can help to decrease the sound interference for other readers/learners.
Some others also probably use their free time to do some readings based on their own interests, and that should be welcoming, to energize more learners for reading, a leisure reading area can be a good choice.
Libraries can also be used as classroom, our own library has set up few flexible white boards, which can be moved when they are needed, that is partially for teaching purposes, also when we have new arrivals for the colletions, those will all be updated on the board!
If we or anyone needs to present their work, then we have a projector  removable.
The library should be used anywhere, so E-library is very necessay,

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Physical collections: The types of books should be diverse. The selection will have a focus on the subjects as English Literature, Social Science, Philosophy, Reference Materials.
Aside from fiction and non fiction books, tool books  such as dictionaries, encyclopedia are also needed. We also booked Newspapers like China Daily(&Business), Global Times, And also plan to purchase Journals, Magazines.
Digital Collections:
Ebooks, E-journals, E-newspapers and E-magazines are necessary for the purpose of online searching, regardless of our internet setup.

Online information platform like online databases: JSTOR, Titlewave, World Bank Open Data, Churchill Archive, Chinese database CNKI, bilingual databases like Superstar.

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In my personal experience, being in charge of the Guided Reading Programme in English (second language at my school) approaches me to the Multiliteracies aspect that librarians need to support.

During the pandemic, new services have come up for us librarians. In my case, I need to scan English books and send them to teachers so that they can read them in their Zoom sesions for students.

The blog “Libraries in the 21st century: the struggle between perception and reality” states the importance of the services provided by the librarian:

“Some schools remain unaware of the expertise librarians bring to learning and teaching in the information age, assuming that libraries merely support written curriculums instead of inquiry and personal development across the community.”

In the blog: “The librarian’s voice should be heard, as much as any teacher’s”:

Creativity and imagination are key strengths of any librarian in the 21st century, as much as they are for any writer of children’s literature. Librarians are also storytellers and great listeners, which require adequate social and interpersonal skills.

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Non academic service: Creat networks, gather physical and digital collections, library system introduction, build connections with other libraries to expand resource use, do timely communication with school management team to guarantee the library budget, build connections with publishers, booksellers and platforms to select the best resources, books cataloging, library designing, house keeping.
Academic Service: Foster IB philosophy for our learners; energize reading, inquiry, multiliteracies, ATL, ATT, LP. Guide students for academic information researching; essay writing formatting, referencing, citation using; recommend appropriate reading materials.

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In the blog “Libraries in the 21st century: the struggle between perception and reality” we find out how important is a properly resourced library:

A functioning library provides the information and possible directions that learning and teaching need to go, and when properly resourced guides lifelong learning as well. Delivering a curriculum without a functioning library is akin to flying a plane without an instrument panel.

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In the blog “Creating a hub in an IB school” we see how important is for the librarian to have everyone in the school community involved:

As a teacher-librarian I collaborate with classroom teachers to ensure that the collection in the library supports the units of inquiry. (...) I meet with the PYP and MYP curriculum coordinators, and classroom teachers, to decide which units include a research component and focus on these throughout the year.

And parents are also involved: “Last year, we initiated an ‘adopt-a-shelf’ program in which parents are invited to come in any time throughout the day to organize their shelf.”

Another great idea about how to involve the whole community:

“We have several library assemblies throughout the year in which parents, teachers and members of our community promote reading. The after-school dance club performs book-related dances such as We love to read.”

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In terms of people who are relevant with IB System, we talk about Librarians, learners, teachers and others like pedagogical leadership team, administrative management team ect.
1) Librarians do curating, caretaking, catalyzing, connecting, co-creating, challenging and catering.
We do the curating by designing the physical and digital spaces, setting up the facilities, creating opportunities for learners, coordinating activities in school communities.
We caretake library users and resources.
We are catalyst of the learning and enquiry of our learners.
We connect with the sources of information, multilitercies, and reading.
We are co-creators of information with the school and a wider community.
2) Teachers to librarians, librarians to teachers.
As part of the main service object, teachers are also able to aid librarians on developing resouces regarding physical and digital collections, coordinating activities with libraries(Subject reading forum), and collaborating with librarians to design the libraries.
On the other hand, librarians should support teachers with unlimited teaching resources, resource platforms. And do always have communications with teachers on learners' learning development.
3)Learners to librarians, librarians to learners.
Librarians are to serve for learners on inquirying and learning. We apply IB philosophyto structure learners' learning journey.
Learners, however, ideally should support librarians with some assitance like, volunteer to organize the books,  design the libaries, even try to do housekeeping work  sometimes.

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The library does not only offer books for circulation, it should offer a warm, welcoming space for all. The library should also connect with the community, local libraries, organizations, and townspeople to show their support of the library program.

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The library collection should have no limits. The resources need to be from a wide array of reading levels, since to support all learners. The collection needs to contain books from multiple languages, and even bi-lingual titles when appropriate. The curriculum should drive the collection. New fiction should always be purchased and promoted. Librarians should also create relationships with other local public and university libraries to obtain higher level resources. Databases are also important for the IB students to use to access information as well.

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This is probably my favorite aspect of the library -- the space itself.  I feel like the library should be the center of "hub" of the school, and if it's logistically there as well, then it's perfect.
You can also utilize other areas outside of the library walls to promote your program -- take a cart of books to the cafeteria, hallways, and/or gym.
Advertise on bulletin boards outside of the library doors. The library is not necessarily the 4 walls within -- it should expand.

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The library should be bustling with all aspects of people - of course, the librarian, teachers collaborating, students working and studying, administration, etc. On any given moment, one should see a variety of activities. The library can also be utilized for small groups, meetings with advisors of programs, college recruiters, and study groups.

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We can say that we are a multitasker.
encourage the students for reading, so they can become confident and share and reflect their learning, experiences, thoughts without any fear or hesitation.
Students should feel free while talking to us
address their inquiries with the right information.

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The collection of the resources is the main aspect of the library so we should choose the resources according to the academic need, referred by the teachers, students and the librarian play the vital role in it. According to the budget the librarian divides the requirements in many parts (text reference books, encyclopedia, professional and personal developments books, fiction, non-fiction, general books, e-resources, magazines, newspapers, online database, etc. ). Librarian should aware of the new arrivals and keep on adding them in the collection. Display the new books on the new arrival shelve. Students learning and growth of acquiring the information and knowledge depends on the collection and how they are using it. Librarian insures that the requirement cater every time.

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all the classrooms have the classroom library and my role is to provide the books before the UOI/ subject topics starts and to promote the learner profile too.
I collaborate with the teachers and do the needful. It helps the teachers to deliver the contents in a better way and students can connect with the information physically.
E-libraries are equal to physical libraries as the teachers and students can access them from anywhere, even from their home. During this pandemic situation e-libraries are playing important role with the inquiries, information and the learning of the learner.

The infrastructure and the design of the school library should be attractive, informative with good graphics and colour posters, the sitting area should be comfortable and quiet, with fast broadband

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The Management, administration, teachers and students plays very important role while developing the library.
The entire school community should aware of the resources available in the library and how to use them.
Author visits and parents volunteers
We take cares of all the needs and the requirement of the students and the teachers. We should collaborate and communicate with them on regular basis to find about their interest and should respect their perspective and reflection.
The librarian is the connection between the information and the user.

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1. Provide resources for teachers and students.

2. Protect resources, data entry and other administrative work.

3. Teach students how to access information while using it responsibly.

4. Manages or supports multipurpose spaces, pastoral care, just-in-time learning, and a wide range of activities relevant to student life.

5. Support and energize reading, inquiry, multiliteracies, approaches to learning, approaches to teaching, and learner profile development.

6. Try to make the library a welcoming, active space for learning, research, and reflection.

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According to the budget, the librarian refers to the suggestions of the leaders and teachers, and plans to expand the library's collection which includes fiction/non-fiction books, subject books, reference books, newspapers, magazines, etc. and to expand the library's online resources, such as online databases, E-magazines and E-newspapers, etc. At the same time, we will also provide students with library management system and technical support. Students’ work are also appreciated. The collections in a library help learners make sense of their environment, their learning, and their own personal and academic goals.

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extend to all learning spaces, classrooms, performance spaces, virtual platforms or other places where learning is monitored by the school.

In the library, we can set up several functional areas, such as computer area, discussion area, reading area and so on. Librarians can work with teachers and students to design activities and provide opportunities and venues for students. Also teacher and students can use all the online/ offline resources in the library.

In the classrooms, students can not only use online resources through their own computers, but also read books on the small shelves in their classrooms.

In the classrooms&hallways, the libraries can post the introduction of new books, the comments of recommended books or recommended reading lists from subject teachers on the whiteboard for students' reference.

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Librarians&teachers&Students Volunteers:

1.Be passionate and treat everyone fairly. We should be willing to help people of all grades, races and backgrounds.

2.Have good communication skills, meet readers and show them all the materials available in the library.

3.Be open-minded. We should critically appreciate our own cultures and personal histories, as well as the values and traditions of others.

4.Have intellectual curiosity and always try to help develop the collections in the library. Also we should keep updating ourselves in our own subjects, also in knowing newer sources, books and journals published in the fields of interest.

Librarians&teachers:

5.We should have team-work spirit and need to Collaborate with leaders and subject teachers to get resources needed and to design the places, collections and services of the library so as to make the library a welcoming, active space for learning, research, and reflection.

Librarians:

6.Keep in touch with the readers by displaying the new arrivals, sending them new lists of books added to our library.

Be risk takers and dare to accept challenges.