By Amanda Brooks
“The library is in the hallways? That’s crazy!”: Transforming a traditional school library into an embedded library model
Abstract
This paper depicts how a pre-school to grade twelve school in British Columbia adopted and implemented a unique embedded school library model. The author shares background, challenges and successes in this journey where the physical school library is weeded, re-located and re-designed for a variety of locations in the school.
Amanda Brooks is the Junior School Librarian at Mulgrave Independent School in West Vancouver. Her library career began as a teenager working at the local public library and has taken her through diverse roles in university libraries and legal information departments. Amanda (known as Ms. Brooks or Ms. Books to her students) strives to embody the spirit of Barbara Bottner’s “Miss Brooks Loves Books” in relentlessly seeking for the perfect book for the most reluctant reader. Her educational background includes a Master’s Degree in Information (Library Studies branch) and a Bachelor’s Degree in the Arts, with a major in Medieval Studies and minor in English Literature.