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School Library Professionals as Leaders: Why Leadership Theory Matters

Posted on July 31, 2025July 31, 2025 by KayO

Part 1: Understanding Leadership as Part of the School Library Professional’s Role This is the first post in a series that updates my previously posted articles on school library professionals and leadership. Whether it is writing the library’s strategic plan, negotiating timetables with senior staff, developing a suite of library policies or running an informal […]

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School Library Professionals as Leaders: Using Leadership Theory to “Read the Room”

Posted on July 31, 2025July 31, 2025 by KayO

Part 2: Understanding Leadership Styles and Frames to Influence School Culture In the first post of this series, I explored how leadership is inherent in the role of the teacher librarian (TL) and school library professionals, even if it’s not always formally recognised. We discussed the value of building fluency in the language of leadership […]

School Library Professionals as Leaders: Practising Strategic Leadership

Posted on July 30, 2025July 31, 2025 by KayO

Part 3: Leading from Where You Are This is an update of my previous three leadership articles posted some years’ ago on this blog. In the first two posts of this series, we established that leadership is already embedded in the role of school library professionals, even though it is not always formally recognised and […]

Will 2023 be the year of Artificial Intelligence?

Posted on January 12, 2023January 13, 2023 by KayO

*Updated 13/01/2022 with minor additions and formatting changes. Happy New Year! I’m making my first post in my refreshed online portfolio, with a new design and look for 2023! Thanks again for joining me and for taking the time to read this and other posts I’ve shared! AI hits the mainstream As the final weeks […]

Understanding the changing nature of information literacy in education

Posted on November 21, 2022December 19, 2022 by KayO

A recent study exploring how college students conceptualize the online information landscape has found that information literacy approaches relying upon a ‘static’ presentation of information, which is sought by the student, does not reflect the current environment where algorithms and information platforms push information directly to users (Head et al., 2020). As the nature of […]

Leadership in practice

Posted on July 1, 2021September 16, 2022 by KayO

Thank you for joining me for the third and final installment of the Teacher Librarian as Leader blog post series. If you have missed the first two posts, consider jumping back to the start to read all three in order. The first post discusses the role of the TL, and how it embodies both management […]

Teacher Librarian as Leader: Lessons from the Literature

Posted on June 14, 2021October 22, 2021 by KayO

As you may be aware, my recent experience as a learning designer contributing to the development of a new, fully online MBA being offered through USQ has led me to consider how Teacher Librarians (TLs) might take advantage of leadership literature emerging from the field of business to enhance their own professional practice as leaders. […]

One for the books: Schools need libraries too!

Posted on October 1, 2019 by KayO

If you travel in library circles, an article published across various Fairfax publications on the weekend has been doing the rounds in your social media this week. The ‘cleverly’ titled: One for the books: The unlikely renaissance of libraries in the digital age is just one of a number of library themed articles published recently, […]

Don’t believe what you see – digging deeper for the truth

Posted on June 26, 2019July 3, 2019 by KayO

Feature image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay We live in a world that is mediated by technology. Every morning we wake up and check our phone for the latest news and updates from friends. We make a cup of coffee and sit down in front of a screen to catch up on our emails. We chill […]

Linking, Stretching and Amplifying at the National Education Summit in Brisbane

Posted on May 31, 2019June 3, 2019 by KayO

In this post, you will find an overview of my presentation which I gave at the National Education Summit in Brisbane, where I presented in the Capacity Building, School Libraries Strand. To give you a summary of my presentation, here is the abstract describing what I shared: PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FOR CONNECTED TEACHER LIBRARIANS: LINKING, STRETCHING […]