Originally published in TEACH Magazine, January/February 2019 Issue
By Meagan Gillmore
Sandra Harnum was pleased when ÂBotwood Collegiate in Botwood, NL, removed most books in its library. “It’s really changed—quite a transformation,” says Harnum, the school’s only teacher-librarian.
Harnum is not in the library full-time, but she has been changing it into a library learning commons since September 2017. She arrived three years ago to a cluttered space, even though her colleagues had started cleaning it and getting rid of books that weren’t being used. They’re not abandoning books altogether, just updating the collection.
Meagan Gillmore is a freelance writer in Toronto, ON.