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Eric Franklin
MLIS from UIUC in 2004, BA in History from UIUC
School Librarian at Carmel Catholic High School
Currently in my 3rd year at Dominican University to obtain my teaching license

It's me.  Here.

I started my library life working for my childhood public library during graduate school.  I did tech services and ILL which was really fun.  I did a little circulation and reference work, too.  I spent a lot of my evening hours working with students from the middle school across the street.  I helped them with projects and posters.  I really fell in love with creating maps and reading goals for a children's summer program centered around Lewis&Clark.  I had officially been bitten by the teaching bug.  I'm celebrating my 10th year at a school library - spending most of this time at Carmel Catholic.  I worked at a charter for 3 of those years, too.

During this time, I have focused my work on information literacy and collaboration with teachers infuse these skills into the general classroom and not just an add-on to the curriculum.  At the charter, I had the opportunity to teach my own media class that incorporated a lot of information literacy skills to help students stay afloat in the endless stream of information.

Beyond information literacy and library learning, I established a teacher communication and collaboration program.  We meet at lunch and discuss topics that fall within the categories of Technology Integration, Grading, and Research.  I'll definitely be blogging about these meetings.