Building a Maker Culture in a Library Learning Commons
By Victoria Roucaud Starting Out The makerspace and Library Learning Commons (LLC) are intertwined. I could not write about our makerspace without first emphasizing the […]
Learning Spaces
At the Heart of It: Our School’s Journey from Library to Library Learning Commons
By Kelly Johnson Four years ago, I landed in my dream job. After 23 years as a classroom teacher, I had completed my library training […]
Taming the Library Dragon: Mission, Ethics, and Library Routines
By Anita Brooks Kirkland The Library Dragon. You know the stereotype, best characterized in the book The Library Dragon by Carmen Agra Deedy. In the […]
Does Your Learning Commons Fit Your Community?
By Marc Crompton COVID. Ugh. We have all struggled through the pandemic as our schools and our spaces have pivoted (do you break out in […]
So Much More Than a Safe Space: Student Well-Being in the School Library
By Anita Brooks Kirkland This article was written for publication in Synergy, the journal of the School Library Association of Victoria, Australia. Published in CSL Journal […]