{"id":64054,"date":"2024-10-31T08:26:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/?p=64054"},"modified":"2024-10-31T08:27:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:27:20","slug":"queensborough-middle-school-teacher-librarian-named-librarian-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/queensborough-middle-school-teacher-librarian-named-librarian-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensborough Middle School teacher-librarian named Librarian of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

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New Westminster, B.C.<\/strong> \u2013 Queensborough Middle School\u2019s teacher-librarian Lisa Seddon was named \u201cLibrarian of the Year\u201d this month by the BC Teacher-Librarians\u2019 Association (BCTLA) and honoured with a plaque for her outstanding work in the field. She received the Diana Poole Memorial Award at an October 25 ceremony in Victoria.<\/p>\n

Seddon was nominated by her New Westminster Secondary School (NWSS) colleague and fellow teacher-librarian, Sarah Wethered, who wanted to spotlight her contributions and believed the efforts deserved recognition.<\/p>\n

\u201cLisa is an amazing educator and friend,\u201d said Wethered. \u201cI believe I have become a better, more thoughtful teacher-librarian through my work with her and New Westminster Schools is a better place because she works here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seddon has worked as QMS\u2019s teacher-librarian for seven years and now temporarily divides her time between the middle school and NWSS. Her work includes an effort to decolonize the QMS non-fiction library catalogue by switching from the Dewey Decimal Classification to a modified version of the Brian Deer Classification. The initiative began in mid-2023 and marks a change to a more flexible and equitable way to organize information and resources at the school\u2019s library. Re-cataloguing the QMS non-fiction collection finished in June of this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a lot of hard work, but it\u2019s honestly a labour of love,\u201d said Seddon. \u201cI get such a sense of satisfaction when I shelve the books and can put Indigenous content front and centre where it belongs.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to her teacher-librarian duties at QMS and NWSS, Seddon is vice-president of the BCTLA and has served in its executive for the last six years.<\/p>\n

The BCTLA\u2019s Diana Poole Memorial Award is the organization\u2019s highest honour. It recognizes practicing teacher-librarians who make outstanding contributions to teacher-librarianship at and beyond the school level in British Columbia.<\/p>\n

According to the award\u2019s criteria, nominated individuals must \u201cdemonstrate planning and implementation of a school library program of such exemplary quality that it [serves] as a model and inspiration for others.\u201d Other requirements may include leadership, commitment to professional growth, and\/or sharing of ideas and resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  New Westminster, B.C. \u2013 Queensborough Middle School\u2019s teacher-librarian Lisa Seddon was named \u201cLibrarian of the Year\u201d this month by the BC Teacher-Librarians\u2019 Association (BCTLA) and honoured with a plaque […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":64057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-events","category-events-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64054"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64060,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64054\/revisions\/64060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}