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The first quarter was a whirlwind, and the second quarter is off to a similar start. This is my sixth year at my current school, and I can finally say that things are shaping up the way I've always wanted! I typically tell new librarians that it takes at least three years to hit the sweet spot where you know the school, the people, and enough about your library to really get things moving. Apparently it took me twice as long this time around, but between the 2016 flood and the start of the pandemic (among other things), I'm giving myself grace.

Last year our Writing Center relocated into the library, and that has honestly been the most positive and beneficial move for the library that we ever could have made. We have an incredible partnership with them - the coordinator is fabulous and she and I are able to tag team so many projects. The student Writing Fellows are in a space that has much more traffic than their previous spaces, so they are able to support their peers more often. It's a beautiful thing, and it just makes sense in terms of being a one stop shop for research and writing.

We put together this infographic to showcase how busy we were for the first quarter. We are still constantly having class visits and the library space is being used as a productive, collaborative work environment for students and teachers - MY DREAM COME TRUE!

I have come to realize that I have to be consistent with my expectations and the use of the space. In years past, our space has been so busy (but not necessarily in a productive way), overrun, and chaotic that is was not the place where students would come to work or where teachers could bring classes to collaborate and research. Drawing some hard lines was hard for me, but it had to happen in order to really get this space to its full potential. As exhausting as this school year has already been, I'm looking forward to seeing what's ahead for us in the library!

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The first quarter was a whirlwind, and the second quarter is off to a similar start. This is my sixth year at my current school, and I can finally say that things are shaping up the way I've always wanted!

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Ten years ago today, I began The Unquiet Librarian blog. It's hard to believe a decade has passed, but the years have passed in the blink of an eye. When I began blogging, I simply did it to have a space to reflect on my practice, period.

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After several years (long enough that the theme I'd been using, Misty Lake, was retired), I've chosen a new WordPress theme to have an updated look. (In real life, I also got a haircut, new glasses frames, and a new job. So. Changes.) Please let me know if something isn't working the way it should!

As part of my new job, I get to work in Children's Services, and I am loving it! I am "upstairs" at the adult services desk most of the time, but I work "downstairs" in children's once a week. Neither desk is as busy as the library where I worked before, which is nice for me as I learn on the job. So far, projects have included cataloguing the storytime collection and organizing and updating booklists by topic/theme/genre and age/grade/reading level. (I'm making booklists "upstairs" too - read-alikes for book group selections.)

There are definitely some different questions in children's, and some of them are much more serious and emotional than any I encountered working at the adult desk; for example, twice in less than two months I've helped people find books to help explain death and grief to their young children. I'm also working hard to familiarize myself with books for younger readers, particularly the chapter books and early middle grade books. A self-assigned project I'm working on is to read all of the 2017/2018 Reading Rocks books, a program for fourth- and fifth-graders in the town. ( I made a new tag for it in LibraryThing; I've read 5 out of 20 so far.)

Big news in the children's/YA world today is, of course, the ALA Youth Media Awards (YMA), including the Newbery, the Caldecott, and the Printz. The live stream of the announcement was here, and the award and honor books are listed below the video. As usual after the announcements, I celebrate the titles I read and enjoyed (this year: A Different Pond, Piecing Me Together, The Hate U Give, Saints & Misfits, The Eyes of the World) and start requesting those I haven't ( Wolf in the Snow; Hello, Universe; Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut; Long Way Down; The First Rule of Punk; We Are Okay).

Did you watch the ALA Youth Media Awards? Which winners did you cheer? Are there any books you wish had gotten awards or honors that didn't? Which books have you added to your to-read list?

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After several years (long enough that the theme I'd been using, Misty Lake, was retired), I've chosen a new WordPress theme to have an updated look. (In real life, I also got a haircut, new glasses frames, and a new job. So. Changes.) Please let me know if something isn't working the way it should!

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Credo, the industry leader for information skills solutions, is proud to announce Literati Academic's selection as a 2014 Outstanding Academic Title. Choice's 2014 review emphasized the "huge potential" for students and faculty and concluded that Literati Academic is "highly recommended."

"It is hard to overstate the importance of reference in research and instruction," said Credo CEO Mike Sweet. "Literati Academic helps students to build research skills, allowing librarians to see positive learning outcomes without having to dedicate extra class time and resources."

Literati Academic is an online research platform and library teaching tool which offers point-of-need instruction and supports students' self-directed research. The world class reference content included in Credo's Academic Core Collection is paired with instructional videos and tutorials that are integrated and embedded into the platform.

Literati addresses several problems faced by students, librarians and professors alike. By making information discoverability more intuitive, librarians need to spend less time helping students find basic sources at the beginning of their research project. Professors can take a flipped learning approach and direct students to on-demand videos and tutorials to hone their research skills, rather than consuming valuable in-class time. Students can find and use tutorials while they are doing research, without logging in to another resource for help or instruction.

The Literati platform is available for Academic, Public, and K-12 libraries, and has been awarded several prestigious honors in recent years. Literati School was named the 2014 CODiE "Best Education Reference Solution," and Literati Public the 2013 CODiE "Best General Reference Service."

Of the thousands of titles reviewed by Choice each year, only a small percentage are named an Outstanding Academic Title.

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Credo, the industry leader for information skills solutions, is proud to announce Literati Academic's selection as a 2014 Outstanding Academic Title. Choice's 2014 review emphasized the "huge potential" for students and faculty and concluded that Literati Academic is "highly recommended." "It is hard to overstate the importance of reference in research and instruction," said Credo CEO Mike Sweet.

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Today's Media and Knowledge Specialists | Scholastic.com

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How a 21st Century Librarian Enhances Student Learning

Susan Gauthier, the director of library services at East Baton Rouge Parish Schools (LA) is completing her first year providing support for the school libraries and librarians of her district's 87 schools. Previously, she was the library media specialist working with teachers and students at a middle school in Baton Rouge. Gauthier has also served as an educational technology consultant who developed and supported PD programs for the Louisiana Department of Education, and as a classroom math teacher. She was awarded the 2014 School Library Media Specialist Award from the Louisiana Association of School Librarians.

THE Journal: How do you see the role of the school library in enhancing student learning?
Susan Gauthier: We talk a lot about the importance of addressing digital literacy, and to me that's the secret sauce: It's bringing in today's world for the student. So, for example, I'm working on bringing makerspaces into our middle and high school libraries and coding in the elementary libraries. We're using LiveBinders to develop portfolios for our librarian compass rubric, and we're piloting a fiction e-book project. Anyone can check in and check out a book, but it's about going a step beyond and bringing a different venue to the students.

THE Journal: What have you done with makerspaces?
Gauthier: To me we've always had this tool; they just weren't called makerspaces. They were book clubs, crafting clubs, enrichment clubs ... a makerspace to me is just labeling this cool space for you to go in and get in touch with your creativity. For nearly all of our middle and high schools, we are sharing what they're doing to inspire ideas. Many of our schools don't have a lot of resources, so we're going to create MOMs - Makerspaces on the Move - with crates that the librarians can check out, bring in and use as something like a pop-up makerspace, whether it's for physical items or for great apps.

THE Journal: How is this advancing student learning?
Gauthier: You might say it sounds like play time, but I see this eventually evolving into a curriculum connection: having that librarian talking to the science teacher and saying, "You are covering forces in motion? What's something I can do with these Hot Wheels cars and tracks to reinforce that lesson?" You always hear teachers say that they're so tied to the curriculum they can't do the fun stuff; this brings that in.

THE Journal: Given the resource constraints, what else are you doing to "go a step beyond" for students?
Gauthier: One new collaboration that's really exciting is called the Volumen project. The Louisiana State University Honors College created a card that gives access to the East Baton Rouge Parish Library's resources online: its e-books, its music, its databases, everything. Now we're distributing those cards to our students. Normally to be able to get to the online resources, your parents have to bring you to the library, sign papers, etc., and a lot of parents don't do that. These are cards that we check out through our school libraries. For the kids to be able to access resources like TumbleBooks and Mango and all of the databases from home and from school ... that's pretty unusual.

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How a 21st Century Librarian Enhances Student Learning -- THE Journal

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Innovator Susan Gauthier, the director of library services at East Baton Rouge Parish Schools (LA) is completing her first year providing support for the school libraries and librarians of her district's 87 schools. Previously, she was the library media specialist working with teachers and students at a middle school in Baton Rouge.

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