As one student put it, “If students got to know their
librarians more, they would have the trust and confidence
to ask about anything.”
Acknowledgment
The authors would like to thank Martha Hickson (@sassy_librarian), librarian at North Hunterdon High School in New Jersey, for the inspiration
to create an orientation video using GoAnimate.
Heather Hersey is an upper school librarian at Lakeside
School in Seattle, Washington. She was previously a
librarian and English teacher at Hunterdon Central High
School in Flemington, New Jersey. Find her on Twitter
@hhersey03.
Sue Belcher is the upper school library director at Lakeside School in Seattle, Washington. She previously
worked as a teacher librarian at Friends School of
Baltimore and the International School of Prague.
Read more by Hersey and Belcher on the Lakeside
Librarian blog at pogo.lakesideschool.org/library.
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