{"id":116,"date":"2018-01-10T15:18:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/?p=116"},"modified":"2018-01-12T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:21:09","slug":"leveraging-expertise-in-our-community-an-action-plan-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/2018\/01\/10\/leveraging-expertise-in-our-community-an-action-plan-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Leveraging Expertise in our Community: An Action Plan Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Our second Face 2 Face session at the York School seems ages ago now and I can’t wait to get together next week at the ME to WE Global Learning Centre. I’ve had the chance to mull and consider and hesitate on some of the big thinking I did at our last meeting. That day I felt I had embraced ambiguity, blown up some of my thinking and really been open to the process. In my reflections on the day, I wrote “I thought I knew what I wanted to work on this year but now I see that it’s just a small part of the bigger picture, but it’s a good place to start.”<\/p>\n

I started this year with a lot of questions, prompted by a construction project in the library that took place over the summer. I wondered…<\/p>\n

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  1. How might we engage further in library advocacy?<\/strong>\u00a0How can I help staff, students and admin be aware of the library and its resources, and the value we bring to the school community? How can I leverage the experts on our staff to help improve the library\u2019s collection and program?<\/li>\n
  2. How might we improve the experience of using the library?<\/strong>\u00a0What are the staff, student and admin expectations of the library and how are we meeting them? How do we make sure stakeholders in our community know what we do? How do we best manage the library\u2019s resources, from staff and space to tech and time, to make accessing the library as frictionless as possible? How can we gather information about this to inform decision-making?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Through the process of empathizing, iterating, prototyping and getting feedback from my peers, I decided to focus on one questions that brings together three smaller ideas from both of these areas: how might we leverage experts in our community to improve library collections and services.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    I haven’t left any of my other questions behind, and they continue to inform my thinking about my action plan. But here’s what I’ve been working on so far:<\/p>\n

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    1. Unpacking the library collection into its new space made clear that our non-English language materials are, at best, underused and out of date. I am bringing in experts from our Languages Department to help do some specific collection development in our French and Spanish language materials.<\/li>\n
    2. Over the years, the library has accumulated a small but very interesting and instructionally valuable collection of rare and antiquarian books. We also have a staff member who is passionate and knowledgable on the subject. She and I will be collaborating on a series of hands-on workshops for Junior School students about the history of children’s books.<\/li>\n
    3. I have put up my Action Plan placemat in the library as a way to begin collecting data from students about the library’s programs and services. Leveraging the expertise of our student patrons will help inform decision-making moving forward in a variety of areas, especially as it pertains to accessing the collection and improving research and citation help.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      So, what do you think? have I bitten off more than I can chew? I’ll report back as my thinking continues to change and my projects develop. Any feedback or relevant experiences in your own school are much appreciated. Thank you!<\/p>\n

      \"\"<\/a>Update, January 12: #3 has been a complete success. Look at all this great feedback! Thank you C21 for giving me the courage to ask how might we.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Our second Face 2 Face session at the York School seems ages ago now and I can’t wait to get together next week at the ME to WE Global Learning Centre. I’ve had the chance to mull and consider and hesitate on some of the big thinking I did at our last meeting. That day … Continue reading “Leveraging Expertise in our Community: An Action Plan Update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,29,30,31],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-plan","tag-collection-development","tag-curriculum-development","tag-rare-books","tag-student-feedback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lauramustard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}