libspeak

As I have passed out the address of this blog to a few people recently I thought I better get a move on updating it. I have been wrestling with my last assignment for my Teacher Librarian subject (whilst wrestling with the difficulty of coping with the fact that everyone else is on holiday!!), and feel slightly overwhelmed with information floating through my head. I have noticed that Library journal articles are as filled with jargon as Education journal articles and I have been impressing my husband with terms like "scaffolding" (a current favourite of our leadership team at school), "metacognitive scaffold" (one of those terms that I understand when I am really thinking hard about it but have difficulty retaining for any length of time), "transferring of knowledge" and many more. I have previously called educational jargon 'eduspeak' - 'libspeak' perhaps for library jargon?