{"id":1365,"date":"2016-05-06T08:42:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2016-05-06T08:42:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T13:42:25","slug":"1365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"Change ahead!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am\u00c2\u00a0thrilled\u00c2\u00a0to finally share the news of\u00c2\u00a0a big change that is on the horizon. Next school year, I will be the upper and middle school librarian at Episcopal School of Baton Rouge. Friends and family who know me well have been a bit shocked by this news, as they know how much I LOVE my students, faculty, and library at Central Middle. It was a difficult decision for me, but in the end I knew this was an opportunity that I would regret passing up. Change pushes us out of our comfort zones and forces us to grow and adapt. I am anxiously anticipating the professional growth that I will experience in the coming years as I work with the incredible students and faculty at Episcopal.<\/span><\/p>\n

As eager as I am for this new adventure, it is bittersweet. During my five and a half years at CMS (and nine years in the Central Community School District), the library program, the reading culture at our school, and the\u00c2\u00a0use of technology have come so far. Genrefying<\/a> our library has helped increase circulation tremendously and self check-out<\/a> has given the ownership of this space over to the students. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve developed relationships and professional partnerships with so many of the amazing faculty members here, and I know I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be where I am today without their support, encouragement, and willingness to work with their crazy librarian. Of course it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be difficult to leave behind my students that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made connections with through our mutual love of reading. I am so proud of the library and school that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m leaving behind, and I know that there are many great things ahead for the library, school, and entire district in Central.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next year will be an exciting one — full of changes and new experiences. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking forward to building relationships with a new faculty and group of students. I will be working with students in grades 6-12, so high school will be a new adventure for me. There are already some great projects in the works for next year that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking forward to — I know it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be a great year and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to share all about it. Bringing my past library experiences and knowledge to a new setting is going to be a lot of fun!<\/span><\/p>\n

Look for many blog posts as I make the transition (and start the process of genrefying another library)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am\u00c2\u00a0thrilled\u00c2\u00a0to finally share the news of\u00c2\u00a0a big change that is on the horizon. Next school year, I will be the upper and middle school librarian at Episcopal School of Baton Rouge. Friends and family who know me well have been a bit shocked by this news, as they know how much I LOVE myRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,30,4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genrefication","category-connections","category-my-ramblings","category-reflections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}