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I graduated with my MLIS from Dominican and I'm

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currently the Learning Center Director, also known as

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a school librarian, at Highland Middle School in Libertyville, Illinois.

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I also adjunct at Dominican. I've been doing that

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for the last 15 years and I teach several different

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courses in the program. The main course

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I've been teaching lately is LIS 773 which

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is the school libraries management course. I also

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work with students who are doing their clinical practice

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and we kind of have modules and reflections that

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they do as they're

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getting their licensure. It's an awesome and rewarding job

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and I credit a lot of what I learned at Dominican in

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the work that I do now.

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The relationships I built there, the network I started there, and

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the things I learned in my classes are kind of foundational to the

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way that I approach my work now and the problem

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solving approaches and the willingness to try

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new things and incorporate new technology. It's a job

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that you'll never know everything. You'll know

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you'll always be working to perfect it and to

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grow and there's something new to learn and to do every day,

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but I think my affiliation with Dominican both as a

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student and now as a teacher in the programs there have

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really helped kind of build and sustain

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my career. So over the time that I've been in school

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libraries, I've seen things change a lot even this

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physical space that we're in right now went from having a computer

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lab to now every student has their own device and we have

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like help desk here for them to come in and use or we have

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work rooms for them to kind of

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share presentations together or have quiet places or loud places

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to work collaboratively. The purpose of the library

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has changed while we still do the same core services we've always done,

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where books and literacy are like key parts

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of what we do, there's all these other extra wonderful things

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that we get to do now with technology and collaboration and

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creation. Since things are constantly changing and

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technology keeps evolving, learning and staying up

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on things is really important. And that's one of the benefits for me of staying

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affiliated with Dominican because it's

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teaching there but also like

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staying as part of that network is to keep learning from other librarians and

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to keep learning to stay on top of things and coming up

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with those strategies to do that.

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Pulling on what you learned in coursework, but then continuing to move beyond that. I think

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being a school librarian is the best job in the building. It

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gives you a lot of creative opportunities, gives

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you a lot of chances to collaborate, to

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see students grow over their course of their time that they're

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in the building like in my case I get to work with students from the beginning

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of sixth grade to the end of eighth grade and they changed tremendously during

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that time but those relationships that we build are really

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valuable.

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And you kind of can pursue your passions but also like tap

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into your colleagues passions and find out what your students

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are really interested in and then continue to grow and learn and every day

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is different.