A Cautionary Tale
I don’t know if this qualifies as “humor” – more like “tragedy”, but LM_net
doesn’t seem to have that as a subject heading … at a “recent school of my
acquaintance” I made it a high priority in my first few months to get out as
much as possible to visit faculty, etc.
The supervisor of library thingies (no qualifications, experience,
understanding, etc), one of the two deputies, hauled me over the carpet for
this, stating that I *must* stay in the library at all times. So I stopped.
A week later the principal visited me, saying that I *must* get out and
visit with staff at every opportunity. I related the previous instruction
from my supervisor.
The principal’s response? “Don’t try to play us off against each other”.
Sigh. Once I’d picked my jaw up off the ground, I just said that I would
“see what I could do”. Would be interested to hear what others might have
responded to that comment.
Amanda Credaro
Editor: Warrior Librarian Weekly
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Author: Biblia’s Guide to Warrior Librarianship
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Day Job: Project Officer – Center for Learning Innovation, OTEN
E-mail: amanda.credaro@det.nsw.edu.au
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:20:26 -0700
From: Mark Williams <markwilliams@MAKAW.NET>
Subject: Re: Sec. Rant regarding teacher use
At 06:46 AM 9/17/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>So -- My problem is getting my English teachers to use the library!! I know
>that they should be my primary users, but there are several who STILL think
>that they know everything about research that their kids need to be taught
and
>that the research can be done either on the internet or individually by the
>students on their own time.
I CAN be very frustrating, I know. I inherited a somewhat similar
situation. One thing that I found worked well was attending department
meetings (if you have them, ask for time on the agenda....say 5 min.)
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