No Canada, Ontario, os tempos são de cortes e reduções no que toca às bibliotecas em geral, incluindo as escolares. Daí que casos como este, da John G. Althouse Middle School, sejam dignos de divulgação no sentido de se, eventualmente, reverter a tendência que já leva a que a maioria das escolas só tenham um professor bibliotecário em tempo parcial e outras nem isso...
It’s home to a reading club and students come in all day — even before school starts, at lunch and after school — to sign out books. During the school day, with the help of teacher-librarian Jill Kelsall, they learn to navigate the web and discern which websites are reliable sources. They also look up information in actual — not virtual — encyclopedias, which is, as Kelsall has shown them, actually sometimes faster than using the computer.
[...] “A contemporary library that is running well should be the learning hub, the go-to place that kids flock to when they need to find something out,” said Kelsall of John G. Althouse Middle School in Etobicoke.
“In my library, kids come here to play chess, it’s the place they go to knit, run the Eco-Team — it’s the home base for student government. It’s where they can get really good reading materials, books they can’t get in the public libraries because the waiting lists are too long.” Her library has computers, a reading area, a Smartboard (like an electronic chalkboard), and it’s a wireless hub so kids can bring in their laptops. Kelsall is a rare breed these days as a full-time teacher librarian. A report by People for Education, released Monday, shows 59 per cent of Ontario schools have one, and most of them are part-time. That’s down from 80 per cent just over a decade ago.
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