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Quiet Libraries, a Thing of the Past?
By Deborah Williams
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In a nod to the changing trends in how to engage students and how they learn, some librarians are changing the traditionally quiet ambiance of their libraries to one in which noise is norm. The Hechinger Report’s Nick Pandolfo reports in his article “In Some U.S. Schools, Librarians are no Longer Saying ‘Shh!’” that some librarians like Buffy Hamilton, librarian at Creekview High School in Canton, Georgia have re-imagined their role by “focusing on enhancing lessons and class projects with tools of the digital world to access, organize and evaluate information.” She sees her job as one of “helping teachers and students explore new mediums for learning.” The “hum of learning” that now exists in her school’s library is a mirror of what’s going on in many school libraries around the country. It seems to be a sign of the times, and the days of expecting absolute silence in a library might be rapidly coming to an end.
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