Every summer my husband and I (and usually our son) go to Camp Atterbury
in Indiana to teach at the Civil Air Patrol National Emergency Services
Academy for two weeks. We teach the higher levels of the Incident
Command System. This year they had a small ICSS class so I was not
needed to teach. Instead I ended up helping with Logistics and
Administration. The minute that they heard that I was a librarian they
said "You are exactly what we need." For logistics I inventoried all of
the equipment and supplies. This inventory I saved in an Excel
spreadsheet. For Administration I checked in all the arriving and
leaving people using a barcode reader and the members ID card barcode.
The program that we were using looked a lot like what we use for
check-out in my library back home. Finally, no one wanted to work the
sales night when attendees purchase camp souvenirs, so I volunteered.
After all the book fairs that I have done - this was a walk in the park.
They have already signed me up to help with Administration for next
year. NESA is the largest Academy that the Civil Air Patrol puts on each
year - so it is great that the participants now see how valuable
librarians are. For more information about NESA
http://www.homestead.com/ngsar/home.html Across the top of the webpage
you will see changing photographs - the tall young man pointing at a map
when it says Incident Command School is our son Matthew.
Cynthia Whisennand, Librarian
MacArthur High School 9-12
Irving TX 75062-3699 USA
W: 972-261-2192 C: 214-563-3963
cwhisennand@irvingisd.net
<http://www.irvingisd.net/maclibrary/>
http://www.irvingisd.net/maclibrary/
<http://macards.com/blogs/library/> http://macards.com/blogs/library/
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