Diane Chen is speaking right now, from the perspective of an elementary librarian. I simply had to hold on to the table when she said,
A smart woman knows everything.
A shrewd person knows everyone.
A librarian knows how to connect the two.
This is a pretty bold person. She’s not going to let any native take over the technology, because she’s a leader, an information leader.
She hijacks classrooms when the substitute is there. There are never enough lesson plans, so she is able to cover things that she’s been trying accomplish.
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Let me know when Diane is looking for a job. 🙂
This sounds a lot like one of my favorite sayings, “Librarians don’t know everything, but we do know how to find everything.” Back in 1991, Mary Goulding wrote a great article called “Real Librarians Don’t Play Jeopardy.” She talked about not guessing at how to answer the question, but rather working backwards from who would know the answer. Connecting people with answers in whatever form they took. That’s what we do, so I always find it sad when teachers don’t work closely with their school librarians.