Now looking at services for children and childrens literature

I am a bit excited by this bit in my course. I am doing two subjects now as I have decreased my working days to two. My two days a week as a Teacher Librarian have started well and I have managed to run a couple of classes through an information literacy program (using the NSW DET model), run the teaching staff through the same program, run some orientation classes for the year 7, help start up a volunteer library crew and run the SRC (phew! on only two days! Just think of the empire building that could happen over a whole week!).

My new subjects are Trends in Children's Literature and Services to children and young adults - all very relevant to my role at the moment. This part of my degree seems a lot more relevant than the first part that I completed through Monash... Also a tad more interesting (not sure if they will kick me out of the alumni association for that comment).

I have been reading Fundamentals of Children's Services (2005) by Michael Sullivan and was struck by the quote "public libraries are becoming a place for children to spend productive, or at least nondestructive, hours"... "children's services can fill an important role in the community by providing a consistent, positive alternative to our society's most vulnerable members". (p 11).