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**Take the time to:**

1. Reach out and network. Check out this group for teacher-librarians to help, share, network and grow. @http://groups.diigo.com/group/teacher_librarians

2. Crack a book, ipad, computer. Take the time to explore. Take some time to peek into this award winning school library: @http://library.castilleja.org/

3. Remember, one can not do it all. Choose 2 or 3 practices and learn to do them WELL. > To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4. Understand the people who share your space (clerks, volunteers, support staff) have a voice too. Remember to ask them for their input.

5. Read your manuals - learn and master your library's circulation system. It's your baby!

6. Talk about books to everyone. Keep lists. Read every one's top picks. I often use this site as a means to help me evaluate interesting titles: @http://www.titlewave.com/login/ There are soooo many amazing blogs online. Find a few favourites.

7. Practice all forms of effective communication. Remember cookies and a kind note count as means of connecting!

8. Use the school newsletter or website to share your voice and your vision. Invite the community into your world.

9. Remember, change takes time, so create short term goals to help you achieve your long term goals.

10. Know that you may, at times, be out of your comfort zone, but. . . it's all good. Have a sense of humour! (Image used with creator's permission)