Erica McWilliam
SLAQ/IASL Conference, Convention Centre, 30 September, 2010.
Diversity Challenge Resilience: School Libraries in Action - The 12th Biennial School Library Association of
Queensland, the 39th International Association of School Librarianship Annual Conference
incorporating the 14th International Forum on Research in School Librarianship,
Brisbane, QLD Australia, 27 September – 1 October 2010.
Email: [email protected]
From To
Silent singular reader Reading as a team sport
Reading for enlightenment Reading for belonging
Books Vooks
Page-turning Key-tappingPage-turning Key-tapping
In-depth reading Power browsingLinear texts Linked fragments
Single focus technologies Interruption technologies
Oasis of bookish tranquility Space of digital interactivity
Training, Sorting
Credentialling
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•provider of pleasant and engaging spaces of
interaction and self-managed learning
•arbiter of the affairs of the neighbourhood
•broker of social relationships•broker of social relationships
•assembler of newspapers and other learning materials
•source of gossip
•alert to ‘special needs’ of clients
•business manager
� Usefully ignorant
� Seriously playful(A)
� Epistemologically agile
� Team orientation
� Ideas translator &broker
� Technologically savvy
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• Routines and habits
•Template applications
•Simple rules and
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•Repetition, memorisation
•Limited appraisal
Procedures manager
•Staff supervision
•Program leadership
•Higher credential
•Promotion
•Wider responsibilities
•Annual appraisal
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All other quadrants +:
•Good judgment •Quick action
•Sound monitoring•Capacity to adapt
•Strategic alliances
Innovative Leader
•Creative generative thinker
•Lead learner•Ruthlessly curious
•Calculated risk-taker•Active networker
•Proactive team member •Creative broker
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•Creative broker
Service provider
• Routines and habits
•Template applications
•Simple rules and
procedures
•Repetition, memorisation•Limited appraisal
Procedures manager
•Staff supervision
•Program leadership
•Higher credential
•Promotion
•Wider responsibilities•Annual appraisal
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•demands knowledge of risk
•produces new risks for the
organisation
•hyper-rational and deeply pragmatic
logic
•‘self-scrutinising’ audit mechanisms
•new organisational arrangements for
monitoring performance Benchmarking activity
•intimate knowledge of the client-as-portfolio;
•more informed about, more focused on, and more likely to contribute to, on-line information flow and the on-line information flow and the virtual information storage systems;
•more adept at finding and using organisational systems;
•more likely to invest professional self-development.
An active enterprising
human resource
•all service providers are to engage in routine diagnosis, classification, and treatment decision-making;
•demands clarification of roles and responsibilities, attention to progression rates, timely response rates for internal and external review and evaluation etc;
•a new visibility for quality claims.
“He’ll be ok – he’s just seen his
key performance indicators...”
•skills and dispositions that apply to new
ecologies for learning
•can be informed by from ‘lifelong
learning’ ecologies from the past
•coffee-house proprietors skills can be
adapted as part of the repertoire of skills
•generic’ risk management is often in
tension with cultural shifts in learning
•professional work as push-and-pull
between compliance and risk-taking.
Stupid optimist seeks the easy life
