{"id":37,"date":"2009-11-04T02:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryramblings.wordpress.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-11-04T02:04:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T02:04:09","slug":"the-changing-world-of-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"The changing world of libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My assistant principal rocks. He&#8217;s pushing our school to move forward technology wise, which I love. And he sends me great articles to read! He sent me an article today about the ways that libraries have to change to keep up with our world: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoollibraryjournal.com\/article\/CA6699357.html?q=things+that+keep+us+up+at+night\" target=\"_blank\">Things That Keep Us Up at Night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I read articles like this one, and get excited and anxious all at once. I&#8217;m excited about helping to move my school to a place where our students are learning what they need in an incredibly relevant way. Finding the path to get there is what freaks me out. There&#8217;s so much out there, so much that I want to do, so many ideas and programs that I want to incorporate. I get all pumped up with these ideas, then reality sets in because all I have time to do is shelve books and see my fixed schedule classes. For me, the hard part isn&#8217;t the fear of the uncertain future. It&#8217;s the frustration that I can&#8217;t just get there <strong>right now<\/strong>. I know that the reality is that it will take an infinite number of small steps (and some leaps thrown in at some point, I&#8217;m sure) to get there. And we&#8217;ll never actually &#8220;get there&#8221; because the envelope is always being pushed farther at a rate faster than we can keep up with. Phew, that&#8217;s all my brain can handle of that for today!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And as a side note &#8211; I&#8217;ve signed up for the Take One! program to help prepare myself for working toward my National Board Certification. I think that working toward earning my Certification is really going to push me professionally. I&#8217;m very excited (and a little scared, too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My assistant principal rocks. He&#8217;s pushing our school to move forward technology wise, which I love. And he sends me great articles to read! He sent me an article today about the ways that libraries have to change to keep up with our world: Things That Keep Us Up at Night. I read articles like<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=37\">Read 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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}