Following the recent American Association of School Librarians National Conference, held last month in Columbus, Ohio, and during the lead-up to ALA Midwinter in January, we spoke with a number of school library professionals about issues and trends they and their colleagues have been seeing in their work.
Makerspaces and Learning Commons on the Upswing
The makerspace and learning commons movements remain hot topics as more and more school librarians and their administrators embrace the idea of changing physical library spaces (and sometimes even their names) to support and encourage evolving learning and teaching styles, as well as curricula. As their names suggest, makerspaces and learning commons provide opportunities for students to work with materials and technologies to be creative and solve problems, in a more collaborative and communal environment than a traditional…
