What Are You?
Because I’m curious. If this poll applies to you, please select one.
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Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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I’m very curious about the “other” responses.
I didn’t fill out your survey as I am a classroom teacher but we use the term Teacher Librarian (I’m in Vancouver BC – Canada)
I prefer (School) Librarian since I worked very hard to get my MLS degree in addition to all the undergraduate education courses. The MLS degree also allowed me to work as a children’s librarian in the public library which I did on a p/t basis for 5 years.
CT uses the title “Library Media Specialist” on the certificate. However, there are certified Library Media Specialists who have gone through alternate routes to certification after first careers as classroom teachers.