Introductions

Welcome to UK School Librarians Unite! I'm an assistant librarian at a secondary school in Bristol, and I thought it would be nice to have a place where school librarians can compare notes, comment about the job and share ideas and support. This is a place for extended essays or musings on aspects of the job, pleas for help or general chats about the experience of being a school librarian. I hope that it will ultimately prove a valuable resource for linking up people in what is sometimes an isolated role.

You don't have to be a librarian to join this community - anyone with an interest in children's literature is more than welcome to comment. If you know someone who might be interested, please let them know the address of this site.

This blog is intended to be a community - I want lots of people to post, not just me. You can do this in three ways:

1. Respond to posts by clicking on the COMMENTS link below the post. Anyone can do this - you don't need to have a blog of your own.

2. Join the community by emailing me and asking to be added as a team member. Once invited, you will need to create a blog of your own (it's free and very easy to do). This will allow you to create new posts.

3. If you have a long essay you'd like to post, but you don't want to become a member, email me the essay and I will post it. Keep shorter comments or queries in the COMMENTS section, though, or my workload will become too high.


Ideally, most people will choose to become team members. I hope to be an administrator, not sole poster. Remember that this is an open community and you should not post anything which shouldn't be in the public domain. In order to prevent abuse, I do reserve the right to edit or delete posts or bar members if necessary - I hope I will never need to. If such a situation does occur, I will endeavour to contact the person involved before taking action. Please don't be put off by the need to create your own blog - it's really very simple and you don't have to use it beyond the demands of this community.

Madame Pince (group administrator) Email: irma dot pince at gmail dot com (Delete spaces and replace dot with . and at with @. It's written this way to avoid the attention of 'bots' which trawl the web for email addresses.)