Don't Mess With Librarians

Last Friday, the librarians in our school district did something shocking ... We met as a team! For the 2nd time this year!

The first order of business? To set 3 more meeting dates before the end of the year. We all agreed that we weren't going to let the principals or any other member of the administration prevent us from getting together. The elementary librarians have no common planning time, so we decided that we could meet with the middle school and high school librarians if we set the 3 meetings in lieu of reading with 2nd graders every morning-- a task we were told about at our first faculty meetings back in August by our respective principals. (BTW, I repectfully objected to that order at that very faculty meeting, stating that it was not in my job description to do this. My principal shot me down.)

In addition, the middle and high school librarians attended a workshop on advocacy at ALA Midwinter and we are going to request a flex workshop so they can share with us a plan for us to formalize our team's plans to be more visible in our buildings and in our community.

Yeah, us!