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The Evolving Role of Librarians

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Originally published in TEACH Magazine, January/February 2019 Issue

By Meagan Gillmore

Sandra Harnum was pleased when ­Botwood 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.

“Books are a form of technology,” she says. “They still have a place in the learning commons.” The shelves are now placed against the wall to make space in the middle of the room. There is also increased internet access for computers, along with more makerspaces.

More schools are creating learning commons. In 2018, the Newfoundland and Labrador government released Extending the Classroom: The Library Learning Commons. This curriculum support document clarifies what learning commons are and gives guidance about creating them.

In a library learning commons (LLC), sometimes just called a learning commons, it is not quiet. Students collaborate and participate in learning. “Within a library learning commons, new relationships are formed among learners, new technologies are realized and utilized, and both students and educators grasp new ways to learn,” the government’s document says. Libraries, it says, play an “essential role in the implementation of this innovative vision for education.”

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Meagan Gillmore is a freelance writer in Toronto, ON.

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