"Flip this Library" by David V. Loertscher

I've read this once before, before needing to annotate it.  Reading it again, more slowly this time and with some small steps toward creating our own learning commons at PRS under my belt, a lot more is coming clear about just what the LC consists of.  It's a radically new practice--right from the roots to the tips--and it's taking a while to really get it.

1. p. 46 - "The main objective of the open commons is to showcase the school's best teaching and learning practices."  I really didn't get that the first time around.  The key word is "showcase."  In this way, the learning commons librarian provides a space for the big think of the whole school.  This really is a place where we can see it all tying together.  
2. p. 48 (box) - I've looked at fish4info.org briefly before, and looking again I realize I've GOT to check out Drupal more carefully!  As we're building the VLC, it could be a vastly more reliable platform than Google sites turns out to be.  And, no, the bigger picture of changing the library website into a networking and content processing center isn't lost amid the cool new toys.  The reality of actually engaging students immediately upon arrival is a chance too good to miss if we really want to educate them and ourselves.
3. Book clubs, book clubs!
4. Ok, here are a couple of obstacles I've got to overcome, moving from "won't work" to "doing it!" (a) class-set textbooks are disappearing and/or simply not accessible to the students who need them when they need them, but (b) the Academic Dean really doesn't get the magic of ebooks and etextbooks.  And (c) the computers in the library are currently constantly having glitches and there just aren't enough of them.  Solutions:  (a) no more classroom sets of textbooks and no more students' families purchasing them--we WILL use etextbooks and electronic readers next year for textbooks; (b) this will actually be vastly cheaper for families, and there will be financial aid available for those who can't afford it; and (c) there will be a C.O.W. in permanent residence in the learning commons.