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Hello, I am the Library Director at The Webb School of Bell Buckle. I use my past experience in college and university libraries to help my current students in school libraries transition into college, career, and life. I am currently the lead Senior Class Adviser for the Capstone Project. I also served at the state level with the Tennessee Association of School Librarians executive board from 2009-2013 and was the TASL president in 2012. I am certified as a Library Information Specialist for PreK-12th grade, have a BS in Communications with a concentration in Advertising and Public Relations, a BS in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Education and Information Systems and a Masters in Library and Information Science.

• Summertime and the Reading Is Easy

  By Hannah Byrd Little on 05/31/2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Don’t Lose the Pleasure of Summertime Reading It seems that reading for pleasure is a lost art these days.  Several years ago, I began sending out “Ms. Little’s absolutely NOT mandatory summertime reading list.”  This was not a list of difficult… Read More ›

• School Librarians Missing at Private and Charter Schools

  By Hannah Byrd Little on 05/04/2017 • ( 4 )

  

  A Private School Librarian I am a private school librarian. There is a tendency to think that those who attend private school are wealthy and elite. However, I have seen a very different picture in my current school. We charge… Read More ›

• Information Bias

  By Hannah Byrd Little on 04/04/2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Bias: Left, Right, Center, Fringe, and Citing Snapchat Several months ago a colleague pointed out a graphic depicting where news fell in terms of political bias. On the chart, the prominent news outlets were placed as right-leaning, left-leaning, center/mainstream, or… Read More ›

• PD for the Rural School Librarian

  By Hannah Byrd Little on 03/01/2017 • ( 1 )

  

  From “Out standing in my field” to “Outstanding in my field” My school library is a 25-minute drive to the nearest public library. We are also 57 miles from the nearest metropolitan area. It is sometimes quite hard to get… Read More ›

• Future-Ready Libraries and Librarians

  By Hannah Byrd Little on 02/01/2017 • ( 1 )

  

  My Midwinter Theme – Research and the Future I have just returned from the ALA Midwinter Conference in Atlanta. At conferences, I like to make a “theme” for myself. I try to attend sessions that complement one another. This year… Read More ›

• The movie was better

  By Hannah Byrd Little on 01/04/2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Is the book always better than the movie? My spouse prefers nonfiction reading. But when it comes to novels we have a little inside joke, where he says “I’ll wait for the movie.” As a librarian,  I want to reply… Read More ›

• News or Not

  By Hannah Byrd Little on 12/08/2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Fake News and K-12 Information Literacy: Following the November 2016 Presidential election, there was great concern about fake news on Facebook and in Google searches. And then, in what seemed to be perfect timing, a Stanford group released the study “Evaluating Information:… Read More ›

• Jobs of the Future

  By Hannah Byrd Little on 11/03/2016 • ( 1 )

  

  How school librarians can prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist: What If? I often wish that I could see into the future so that I could prepare students for the next great thing. However, my MLIS degree did… Read More ›

• School Library Archives

  By Hannah Byrd Little on 10/07/2016 • ( 2 )

  

  School archives are important and useful for many schools Information professionals everywhere are focusing on 21st-century skills. We are developing new uses for our library facilities like makerspaces and learning commons. It is not surprising that the idea of giving… Read More ›

• Curation and Pathfinders

  By Hannah Byrd Little on 09/07/2016 • ( 1 )

  

  The Back-to-School Goal and the Conversation That Ensued At my school, we are having a long overdue conversation about types of  library materials and the organization of library materials (print versus electronic… Dewey or Don’t we, etc.). This conversation began… Read More ›