What are some important aspects of a library technology specialist’s job?
It’s a really exciting time to be a library technology specialist. We’ve moved into library information specialists — people who’ve always been sort of at the heart of a school and who need to integrate all of the pieces for the students’ and teachers’ resource-based education, integrated curriculum, technology-infused lessons. And it’s a real pivotal role, and students are key players in that whole piece, especially with the Gen www.Y program. We can have them working with librarians who have a little more flexibility and time and have a scope and sequence awareness of the school so they can send out these mentors and kids who can be just-in-time support people for the teachers in their classrooms. And we can make a very technologically literate population.
