Ross Todd's eloquence

Ross Todd is a brilliant, articulate advocate for school libraries.

Here is his inspiring definition of a school library :

"The school library is the school’s physical and virtual learning commons where inquiry, thinking, imagination, discovery, and creativity are central to students’ information-to-knowledge journey, and to their personal, social and cultural growth."

When searching for the exact wording of a half-remembered quote from Ross Todd, I revisited his 2001 IASL paper Transitions for preferred futures of school libraries with the subheadings :

• Knowledge space, not information place
• Connections, not collections
• Actions, not positions
• Evidence, not advocacy

See also this powerpoint School Libraries : making them a Class Act from a presentation Ross gave at the WA School Library Association Conference.