ETL503 "What to watch for in 2013"

Reading Shatzin’s blog “What to watch for 2013”, I was slightly pleased to read that there are many unresolved issues that will hopefully prolong the life of hardcopies in an actually library staffed by TL’s and SASS Library Assistants . The longevity of hardcopies may be a result of Shatzins ideas that picture books and illustrated books due to screen sizes will not have the same impact digitally and on the other hand a reference book displaying disinteresting charts my also lead to the readers disappointment. I believe that Shatzin’s points of the merger of large publishers and increase competition amongst platforms will provide consumers (schools or individuals) with greater purchasing, viewing (ebook or hardcopies) and security options. These ideas put forward by Shatzin, I believe will impact school libraries and their collections in such a way that there will be numerous modes for reading books and there will be more options for TL to resources their library. Knowing how students learn and what they want to read have been traditional roles of the TL and teachers, TL’s now have an additional role of knowing how they want to read (ebook or hardcopy). It’s also important for the TL to identify the needs of the teacher and other community members while being flexible and continually up-skilling in this ever changing environment.