How do you think a teacher librarian might make his or her priorities both clear and palatable to the school community.

A TL’s priorities can be made clear by working collaboratively with executive staff and Principal to achieve whole school outcomes. This will help identify on a needs bases allocation of time, money, expertise, and allow flexibility for the TL to allocate these resources to other essential TL roles.

This above statement would be great in an ideal world. However, from these readings I have formed the opinion that TL’s are forever under the hammer to prove their place within a school community. After looking at some of the research (not all as I’m a slow reader) it all seemed legitimate that decisions are based on evidence, a holistic approach is taken to obtain the evidence and continual evaluation and decision making occurs. It appears to me that TL’s will forever be defending their jobs and in the process having to allocate time, time and more time to justify their position through this type of research. This research is important, I would rather it be used to effectively allocate time, money and expertise for the betterment of students, not to the justification of the TL position.