District-wide technology plan

[Janet Thomas <jthomas@TENET.EDU>]

Help!!  Currently, all of our technology funds are distributed to
individual schools on a per capita basis. How the funds are used on each
campus is decided by the site-based committee.  This means that a
district-wide library technology plan is subject to the decisions of each
of the 50+ site-based teams in our district.  This has lead to
inequities.  Some libraries have on-line catalogs and some don't.  It's
possible for a student to have access to an on-line catalog at one school
and if he moves to a school a few miles away, he has to use the
traditional card catalog.  An elementary library may have an online
catalog, but the junior high it feeds may not have one.  Some libraries
have CD-ROMs and some don't.

How are these issues handled in your districts?  Do you have a
district-wide plan which is implemented through a district library
services department, or is each library on its own as far as technology
is concerned?  Your comments will be very helpful to me and the other
librarians in my district.

Thanks for the info!

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Jan Thomas                    jthomas@tenet.edu
Bowie High School             Phone:  817-472-4443
2101 Highbank Drive           Fax:    817-468-7767
Arlington, Texas 76018        "I can't live without books"...or computers!
                                    --Thomas Jefferson
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