Transitions

I sent 25 emails on Friday. I was tying up the lose ends as I transitioned out of life as a graduate assistant and into my temporary role as the Library Media Specialist at a local high school. Each outgoing email was like watching my assistantship flash before my eyes. I was closing the door on two years of relationships and projects and opening new doors to the future.

With this transition, I have found that mind is freed to dream new dreams in a new space. Albeit a much more confined space. My contract puts me into the library for the remaining 3 months of the school year. I've chatted with a few of my librarian superstar contacts and their advice is to focus on being a learning centered librarian and developing collaborative projects.

I was at the movie theater this afternoon and a flood of ideas hit me. I stepped out to jot them down and here is what I came up with as possible goals/activities:

• Bathroom Library Newsletter complete with QR codes
• Reading Motivation Project - Guys Read - Spring/Summer activities focused
• Laminated maps of local lakes with fishing books and a link to a Google Maps fishing report mashup
• Short film contest - TBD
• Collaborative projects with at least one teacher in every grade level, and every major subject area
• Seasonal reading collection displays
• Information literacy and research presentations in all ninth grade language arts classes