Life Learners

Two of the readings for class this week talked about fostering information literacy and creating life long learners.  The readings talked about the roles of public and school librarians as well as teachers in this process and that collaboration is key.  As a teacher and a student of LIS, I feel that this is very important and love the idea of promoting both information literacy and life learning.  I know that many of the teachers in my school work the technology coordinator and librarian to include information literacy into their curriculum.  We have scheduled library and computer lab times for classes as well as mobile labs.  I have even seen questions on information literacy on standardized assessments tests at the grade school level.  

Getting Started

As I was making rice for dinner tonight, I thought about a movie I watched over the weekend.  In Jiro Dreams of Sushi, they say that Jiro has perfected the art of making rice.  Jiro has been making sushi for over 70 years and he says there is always room for improvement--always something new to learn.

In eduction like youth librarianship (and like sushi), I feel that we can only try to keep up with the changes that occur and attempt to evolve with those changes or lose our connection with the youth. No matter how many years we put in, we will never catch up to the changes.  This blog is my attempt to explore the issues of youth librarianship in hopes to better understand the changes that are occurring in the field.