I've been thinking about starting a blog reflecting on what I do in my elementary school library for ...well...almost two years now. I've had a few nudges along the way, including Tiffany Whitehead's keynote at our state school library media conference in 2013, in which she talked about using a blog as an advocate for your school library. I also recently was inspired by Andy Plemmons on The Idea Box Show, and then by exploring his blog, Expect Miraculous. When someone on Twitter asked me if I had a blog, I realized it was time!
Then what to name it? I had been thinking about this for a while too. Sometimes things like this take me forever to decide. (I still haven't been able to come up with a great roller derby name for myself, but that's another story.) I already suffer from way too many names, since our district's official title for us is Media Resource Center Director, or MRC Director, but like many librarians, I get called a lot of other things too from library teacher to media specialist. Plus, I just got married a year ago and changed my last name, and I also get called Becky, Rebecca, and occasionally Becca.
However, I love the idea of being called a book nerd. The word "nerd" has some great connotations for me, from The Nerdy Book Club to NerdCampMI to Nerd Fighters/Nerdfighteria. Embrace the nerdiness! Since there was already a blog called the Nerdy Librarian, I settled on The Nerdy Teacher Librarian. It had everything I was looking for. Phew.
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