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The article presents a message from the president of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL). She talks about the librarians who forged trails and changed school libraries to become learning commons to create livable school libraries based on the pioneers' experiences. She cites the need for the pioneers, settlers and traditionalists to find a common ground to create libraries that offer learning opportunities to all students in all schools.

The article offers the author's insights regarding the school librarians who often get surprised when their students excel in information fluency skills and responsibilities. Topics discussed include perception of school administrators regarding the value of librarians, school innovation, and student learning.

The author discusses her experiences of visiting makerspaces which contain sewing machine, buckets of tools and tool cabinet as compared to learning centers with things like construction paper, markers and books. She believes that a library could also be a makerspace made to be used for children to dream, create and make. The author also realized that maker-learning takes advantage of time and that respecting other's work is the key over clean and tidy spaces.

The author reflects on how a school library program connects to the curriculum. She states that various descriptions of the program as enriching, reflecting, and supporting school and state curricula are not entirely accurate due to connotations that devalue the role of librarians. Instead, she argues that school librarians work to strengthen the teaching and learning process, improve the connection between curricula and student achievement, and increase the use of information resources.

In this article the author discusses various activities that can be done by librarians. According to the author, librarians should stop being afraid of providing e-readers to students because they may damage them, and trust their students while teaching them. The author says that librarians should encourage learning among students, and find new ways to use smartphones in school.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses topics including optimal student learning, the rearrangement of libraries and the revamp of courseworks.

In this article the author reflects on the technological developments in the field of literature. The author relates how new generation of young adults are consciously deciding on what they want to watch in their own time and terms, usually in a computer screen and culture of people with electronic readers. The author also notes the use of Internet and other electronic communication and information choices in learning.

The author offers an evaluation of the importance libraries to be cope with technological innovations for 21st century learners by moving into the world of downloads, applications and electronic-readers. She notes the need of libraries to put to use for resources to answer information needs and assist with formal and informal learning. She cited the essentiality of libraries to be available anytime, anywhere and with any device.