Not as many are doing the watering and nurturing now and, like plants, our libraries are slowly dying"

Sadly I wasn't able to put the whole quote in the heading. It was, "Teacher-librarians have nurtured and watered school libraries. Not so many are doing the watering and nurturing now and, like plants, our libraries are slowly dying". This is a quote from on of my asssigned readings by an author Robert Munsch. I have to say I find it curious that in a course for teacher-librarians or teachers wanting to become teacher-librarians they should begin with a reading on the decline of libraries and how due to budget cuts there are no librarians and libraries are going to the dogs essentially. Already it has me thinking about changing to being a reading specialist because reading is, hopefully, something that will always be valued within the education system.

I have had little or no luck contacting any librarians to help me in my quest for enlightenment as to, what constitutes a TL. I have a feeling this is directly linked to the fact that librarianship seems to be in a downward spiral. We shall have to wait and see. Other than that all is going swimmingly but only because I am not working. I think when school is back in session I will have to up my game.

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

So in order to succeed you must try, try and try again.

I had emailed the librarian who had most recently been working in my school, to get her opinions on the role of a librarian with in school. Unfortunately, her email appears to no longer work. This could most likely be directly linked to her also relocating to Canada and the email being a United Arab Emirates provider. Who knows? So, as Winston Churchill tells me; success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Thus, with enthusiasm I go on.

I have emailed the other librarians I know. The concern is that they are predominantely academic librarians so may be out of touch with the lowly teacher librarians. I await their responses.

And while I wait I shall continue to enjoy Lebanon and all the Arabic, culture and food it has to offer me.