About Me

Education I gained my Masters of Education at the University of British Columbia specializing in Teacher Librarianship. In 1993, I gained my My Post Baccalaureate Diploma at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia,  in curriculum studies. In 1991, I gained my Bachelor of Education at Simon Fraser University.  I have minors in history, psychology and early childhood [...]

School Libraries and Blogs

I have found out so much about how school libraries use blogging.  Many use blogs to publish book reviews.  While this is very interesting and I enjoyed reading them, it became apparent that the students did not comment very often and I felt the librarian might have been posting to his or herself.  I would [...]

The Library Zone

King George V School , Hong Kong hosts the The Library Zone.   It is easily navigated from the school’s Welcome Page by clicking on the side menu buttons of Department, KGV Library and then KGV Library Blog.  The blog was established in November 2005 and is hosted by two library staff, Ms. Tong and [...]

Grandview Library Blog

A Must Visit Site!!  Grandview Elementary School, Monsey, New York is the home of Grandview Library Blog.  The library blog can be found by clicking the library link on the side menu of the school’s home page.  It can also be found by googling Grandview Library.  The Grandview Library Blog is eye catching and had [...]

Book Splat

Beverly High School, Massachusetts has an interesting Media Center web site run by Barbara Fecteau.  The strange thing about the Media Center’s web site is there are no links (that I could find) to any of Mrs. Fecteau’s blogs and she has five connected with the school!  I first came across Book Splat from a [...]

Mission:Read

Chiddix Junior High School, Normal, Illinois hosts three blogs from their Information Media Centre.  To navigate to the IMC from the school home page is easy, just click the IMC menu button on the sidebar and it takes you to the IMC home page.  Mrs. Glatt is the author of all three blogs but they [...]

Olson Middle School Media Center

Olson Middle School, Bloomington MN. has four blogs connected to their Media Center.  Three of them are creations of Mrs. Kochel and the fourth is hosted by Mrs. Gillis who is also a teacher in the school.  Each blog can be found by following the links from the school’s welcome page.  Clicking on the sidebar [...]

Dutch Forks Middle School

Dutch Forks Middle School, Irmo, South Carolina  has a Media Center that uses blogs to publish student’s book reports.  The Book Review Blog can be easily navigated to by going to the School’s home page and clicking on the side menu option of Media Center.  A link is clearly marked on this page. The book blog’s [...]

Voices from the Inglenook

    One of my favourite school library blogs is from Cold Spring School, Santa Barbara, California.  Mrs. Pedersen writes the blog called Voices from the Inglenook.   From the school web page Voices from the Inglenook can be found by following the links classroom, then library.   It is easy to find the blog once you are [...]

Why this Blog?

Hi, My name is Barbara Heard and I’m currently taking LIBR 500, Foundations in Information Technology at the University of British Columbia.  You can find out more about me on my “About” page.  The purpose of this blog is to examine how various school libraries use the web 2.0 tool of blogs.  I am interested [...]