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SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY IMPACTFUL LIBRARIANS
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How?
• Knowing that the majority of school leadership administrators are focused on five key areas
is a good place to start. These include:
a
Equitable access
for all students
a
Measurable and discernable improvement among the district’s struggling readers and
learners
a
Creating a culture of reading and literacy
a
Ensuring all students are
reading on level
by fourth grade
a
Ensuring students are
college and career-ready
• Having an awareness of what is happening at the district level, and being actively involved in
the formation and communication of the district’s strategic plan and mission
a
Regularly visit the school’s website
a
Attend Board of Education meetings
a
Collaborate with principals on specific goals
Impact Habit #3 – Be the Curator of All Digital Content
Highly impactful librarians
know that they are distinctly
qualified to evaluate, curate, and distribute digital
content that best supports instruction. Highly impactful
librarians must remain at the nexus of digital content/
programs and technology.
Why?
• As a librarian, you are the most qualified content “curator,” using your skills of discernment to
best determine what type of content is most appropriate for your students and teachers.
• The stakes are higher than ever as access to and transmission of digital content becomes more
fluid via the Internet and mobile, where the sources/purveyors of that content are increasingly
murky. Media literacy—the ability to evaluate and synthesize content—has never been more
critical than it is right now.
• Due to the emergence of standards that support the Common Core and/or College and Career
Readiness skills, teachers are seeking more diverse types of texts—called text sets—that librari-
ans are uniquely qualified to create and deliver.
How?
a
Establish an awareness of and protocol for determining accuracy and validity of online content.
a
Compose, create, and distribute high-quality digital content clusters called text sets.
a
Strengthen digital reading stamina by driving students to more Volume Reading versus only
Close Reading in order to build knowledge via text sets.
can bring you back
100,000 answers.
A librarian
can bring you back
the right one.
—Neil Gaiman