Technology is the great homogenizer of our experience. Our communities, however, still pride themselves on their uniqueness - which is a librarian's greatest opportunity.
Likewise, I think it is our unique individual skills as much as our common librarian skill-sets that we need to cultivate to create the "match" between what our school needs and the resources we might provide.
We have beaten to death the debate over print vs. digital resources. What we need to engage is not the medium, but the scope of the "resources" we might manage. Does my school community need an art gallery, a speaker series, a character-ed guru, a learning lab, a literacy outreach program, a puppet theater, a teen center, a movie studio, a mentor cafe, a grant writing center, a visiting alumni program...all of which need an organizer, a facilitator, a librarian.
What a gift! Each of us gets to create the entry in the dictionary for the word "librarian."
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