A New Path for School Librarians?

Colorado Administrator Forges New Path for School Librarians

By Katie Ash
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  • Ed Week

When $50 million in budget cuts over three years forced her school district to cut librarians' schedules from full to part time, Julie A. Bowline knew the loss of services for students would be difficult to bear.

But instead of lamenting the circumstances, Ms. Bowline, the 56-year-old director of instructional technology and library services for the 43,000-student Adams 12 Five Star district north of Denver, chose to reimagine what librarians in her district could be—and think about how to leverage the little time they had to get the greatest impact on student learning.

Drawing on her background in instructional technology, Ms. Bowline and district library-services coordinator Kimberly Ackerman (who has since retired), came up with an entirely new position to best draw on the skills of the teacher-librarians: digital-literacy teachers for the elementary and middle schools.

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