Class 3

Last week in class we discussed the definition of a school librarian.  We went through a bunch of possible duties and descriptions of the school librarian, sorting them out for ourselves which tasks we valued as most important, and which we valued as least important.  Once the class brought our lists together, we noted that those tasks/descriptions we valued most are how school librarians perceive themselves, while those tasks/descriptions we least valued are how school librarians are perceived by others.

Here is my sorting.  I split the tasks/descriptions into 3 sections: important, medium important, and not important.  Then I numbered within each section going from most important to least important.

It proved difficult to order tasks based on importance, because some tasks are essential to the librarian's job but do not seem as important.  Perhaps this is because these essential tasks do not directly relate to teaching students?  For example, collection development and weeding are quite necessary, yet initially did not seem as important as teaching website evaluation to students.  Given another chance, I may have moved these sorts of tasks up to the important category.