The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

34 Ontario School Library Association any subject areas or specific titles they would like for that first week. Then i try to have them pulled, signed out and delivered to their rooms or mail slots to welcome them and support the library service model. Play The Library Learning Commons is a fantastic place to work. it's a place to play with ideas, to nurture curiosity and to model risk-taking. remember to have fun and demonstrate to your students what it is to be a life-long learner. read constantly. There is nothing more rewarding than being able to hold in-depth discussions on many books and to be able to make recommendations with confidence. makerspaces are very popular right now and can be as basic as a Lego wall or craft corner to complex robotics and coding stations. As well as a makerspace, consider having a spot for puppets and dramatic play, an ongoing jigsaw puzzle, and traditional board games. Consider running clubs. Scholastic is great at publishing books that have companion websites with games and quests. Team up with classroom teachers to run reading clubs (don't forget the Forest of reading), as well as other clubs that can link to curriculum, e.g. cartooning, poetry, and app development. Take the lead and introduce your colleagues and students to transmedia works. inanimate Alice (inanimatealice.com) is classic for junior/intermediate students and manages to incorporate story, image, video, music, sound effects, diagrams and games all into one highly engaging tale. A few other transmedia works to explore include: Flight Paths (flightpaths.net), Skeleton Creek (patrickcarman.com/ enter/skeleton-creek), infex (itunes.apple.com/ca/app/ infex/id538082903?mt=8) and The Creature Department (thecreaturedepartment.com/creatures.html). Evaluate Learn to reflect daily on what is going well, what needs a few tweaks and what has to change or be thrown out. Be honest. Get feedback from staff and students. Consider keeping a journal so that you can track your work, successes and feelings. if you are interested in a more formal evaluation, take a look at Achieving information Literacy available at accessola2.com/ SLIC-Site/slic/ail110217.pdf for Canadian standards, sample checklists, and a policy statement of competencies for teacher-librarians. These tools not only inform your practice but are useful when writing your annual report to submit to administrators. Figure out what kind of teacher-librarian you want to be and what your Library Learning Commons will offer. Then with a bit of preplanning: connect, organize, play and evaluate, you are on your way to a fantastic year! z References Crippen, C. (2005). inclusive education a servant-leadership perspective. Education Canada: Fall 2005; 45; Proquest education Journals, p. 19 - 22. Lindahl, r. (2008). Shared leadership: can it work in schools? The Education Forum: 72, 4; ProQuest education journals, p. 298 - 307 zmuda, A. and harada, V. h. (2008). Librarians as learning specialists: Meeting learning imperative for the 21st century. Westport, CT: Libraries unlimited. …continued from page 33