Christopher Haris - It's Not Your Mother's Library

I love this article. I can see how librarians can help students from 4th grade to 12th grade integrate their reading experiences with the power of information. I have wondered how this was going to be accomplished, and now I know a vehicle for arriving at this destination. I have realized that as an Information Access Center, the library needed ways to keep up with the information explosion. Not all libraries have the access to computers, so that could be a problem unless the librarian spends considerable time with them in their computer labs.
I like the idea of working with reading specialists to help assess students' progress. I like the idea of having the students keep a Rollyo or Library Thing recording their favorite reads and giving reviews and feelings about those reading experiences. I don't likek the idea of making a movie or video giving instructions by digital podcasts, but I could be converted. I think the in-school Channel 6 works fine right now for broadcasting information...it could be used to do the same things.
I dislike legislators that believe librarians are not teachers. I wish we could get them into the libraries to see what is being done. I dislike the 65% solution. Libraries are definitely classrooms.
I believe strongly that the librarian's services must reach beyond the four walls of the library.
Learning 2.0 will facilitate broad new avenues for the sharing of literacy.
Interesting that we will not only be trying to cultivate a love of reading and of literature but we must come to love the computer and all it has to offer. We need to do as Harrison suggests: Help students become literate users of information. That is a learned skill which we must begin teaching early in the students' lives.