ANNE-MARIE TARTER

Biography: Originally from California, Anne-Marie moved to Yorkshire twenty-five years ago and has worked as the school librarian at Ripon Grammar School for the last fifteen years.   Information Literacy has always been a key interest of hers and she has slowly built up a programme of skills development, delivered through curricular subjects, that has been the subject of several research studies.   She has delivered training on information literacy and librarian-teacher partnerships to various groups of librarians and teachers.   In recognition of her IL skills work, she was asked to be her school's Key Stage 3 Literacy Coordinator.   She has served as the secretary of SLG for the past five years and served on the working party for the recently published CILIP Guidelines for Secondary School Libraries.  

Title: Partners in Learning: librarians working in partnership with teachers

Summary: School librarians are accustomed to thinking about how to meet the needs of the pupils in their schools, but they shouldn't overlook the needs of the teachers as educators, as readers, and as learners in their own right.   In order for the library to support the teaching and learning of the school, it is essential for the librarian to form partnerships with staff across the curriculum.   This session will explore ways in which librarians can build these partnerships; and demonstrate how librarians, by meeting the needs of teachers, can make the library central to all learning in the school – even that of the teachers!