#I don’t see anything from u Pitt or any other MLIS or ischool programs that require a practicum

[tiekawaititi]

okay so person who’s about to graduate with her MLIS here (with a couple years of school library experience and children’s librarian experience) with the latest ep of abbott elementary (I know they were just doing it for the sake of plot but I gotta make sure everyone knows?) I have four thoughts on the librarianship we observe in the ep

1. teachers wouldn’t have a three book limit within a school’s library loan policy. you’d be conducting interviews and looking at the school board’s loan system and seeing where they meet to see what meets in the middle and what can be loaned, altering policy as we go (can be done! Esp at the elementary level). because they likely don’t have an ILL (inter library loan) system reinforcing loan times and loan amounts wouldn’t be necessary, further reducing a limit need.

2. using unabridged Dewey is nice but not for a library at this scale. it’s too specific, and isn’t adapted in that detail in most school library settings.

3. If it’s reference material it would have a reference tag on it. the principle of convenience of the user would (an interpretation of ranganathans fourth law) clearly indicate that everything with a non-traditional loan policy would be sorted in the same place and labels appropriately

4. Booking? For visiting the school library? You shouldn’t really enforce a policy like that, I’m unsure as to why the library without a quiet zone like that didn’t allow for two classes to be in the space as once (this is undermined by later scenes where it looks like there’s more than one) so on this principle alone I’m team Barbara on that one a little, but without the threatening program consequences and whatnot (this is a three minute plot moment in the episode but whatever).

I LOVE the librarian and I hope we get to see more of Ms Inez in the show!!!