Communication

Communication is so key to what we do as teacher librarians. So what are the best ways to communicate? High Tech, low tech, both?

I think it's a combination of the two--I'm trying to move staff into the high tech realm for checking the library schedule online. But if the internet is down which happened last week--a paper backup comes in handy.

A monthly newsletter has received a positive response once I went to the printed version in the mailbox. The reality of the teacher's world is that when we read an email with an informational attachment we decide to wait until later to actually read and later never comes.

Students aren't any easier...my blog which is the library webpage quickly gets skipped over as they move on to whatever webpage they want to view. I've had a one question poll on the library page to get a sense of how I'm doing and so far only two people have responded. Despite the 70-90 that were on the computers today and saw the page. How do I engage them to stay on the page for a moment or two?