confession 9 and the ILSC

I am taking 5 mins out of the serious business of assignment writing for a quick update - I have finally finished my draft and true to my usual standard it is 3000 words over the word limit. I know concise writing is a skill, but ....
I think I could probably quite easily go to 10,000 on this one - oh for another 1000 words.

Nevertheless, I have 3 days to cut back, cut down, reword and trim quotes. I am actually quite happy - i may not have to do very late nights for days on end after all!! And best of all I actually have my references all done!!! thanks goodness - don't you find that just when you think you're finished the references somehow mysteriously add on extra time.

I really enjoyed pulling together some of the reading for this assignment, I started by looking at what is IL and then moving onto the ILSC, some of the material that didn't make it was pretty insightful and its would be quite good to do a reflection on the school as a learning organisation and how this would impact on the development of an ILSC.
I also enjoyed the differences in opinion about the best way forward - Todd's arguments for evidence based research are quite strident, though i think that this is a big ask on top of the other TL roles, but having said that, i can see how a combination of approaches including (it goes without saying) getting the principals support, and attending to the 'first tier' core business of the TL as well as research would promote library services and help create an ILSC.

Anyway, enough musing ... Good luck fellow ETL401ers out there

Todd, R. (2001). A sustainable future for teacher-librarians: Inquiry learning, actions and evidence. Orana 37(3) 10-20.

doi:10.1177/019263659908360512

Todd, R. (2007). Evidenced-based practice and school libraries: from advocacy to action. In S. Hughes-Hassell & V. H. Harada, (Eds.). School reform and the school library media specialist (pp. 57-78). Westport, CY: Libraries Unlimited.