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Hi All, I have watched this discussion with interest. How do you raise your profile in the school to show people that the term librarian (and I like it because I feel it is all-encompassing) means so much more than the keeper of the books? Offer to do some PD with your staff. Show them how to search the Internet properly, talk about information gateways and electronic portals, include snippets of information in weekly newsletters about happenings in the technology world. Call yourself an information specialist. Take on board the new technologies and if you haven't been back to uni to upskill in the last 7 years, then get on board and do some intensive PD for yourself. If you go to conferences, report back on these to the staff and the Principal. Talk about (knowledgeably of course) learning objects, metadata and online curriculum. Changing perceptions will only happen when we move out of the library, stop presenting ourselves as library managers or keepers of the books and sell ourselves to staff and admin as the gatekeepers to global information sources and knowledge. We are also the keymasters in that we are the ones who teach informatgion literacy skills and unlock the lifelong learners within. Ask staff - What can the TL do for you? - then tell them. You are always a teacher first and a library and information centre manager second. :) BC Convenor for the Transforming Information and Learning Conference http://www.chs.ecu.edu.au/TILC Barbara Combes, Lecturer School of Computer and Information Science Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia Ph: (08) 9370 6072 Email: b.combes@ecu.edu.au "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation." Walter Cronkite This email is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify me immediately by return email or telephone and destroy the original message. -----Original Message----- From: School Library Media & Network Communications [mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Charlotte Ballard Sent: Wednesday, 1 March 2006 12:48 PM To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Subject: Re: [LM_NET] serious concern These comments all ring true. My favorite one came from a very good Kindergarten teacher--excellent, in fact. But she stopped me in the hallway one evening and asked me, Why are you a librarian when you are so smart you could be anything you wanted to be?" And so on, implying that I was wasting my talents as a children's librarian. I asked her sweetly since she was so sweet, "Don't you think the children deserve the best librarian they could have?" >>> Jennifer GARCIA <garciaj@UCISD.NET> >>> I left the classroom and have never looked back again! As far as I am concerned, I still teach all the time only now my classroom is bigger and has more books. Not only that but i reach many more students this way. I don't know why you are getting that attitude, but I get comments all the time about how they would LIKE to have my job and get out of the classroom. Good luck and don't look back! Jennifer Garcia, Librarian Uvalde Junior High School P.O. Box 1909 Uvalde, TX 78802 (830)591-2980 garciaj@ucisd.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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