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I'm a junior high school librarian in Las Vegas, NV. We currently have 1765 students. I have one aide who works 5 hours a day. I am lucky to have an aide. In our district we have app. 17 junior high schools and only two of us have library aides. Our middle schools range anywhere from 1200 to 1850 students. Next school year we are going to have a large increase in population. Our district is growing at an extremely high rate because of the economy, fairly low living expenses, and climate. App. 11 of our middle schools will go on double or extended day sessions. My school, Johnson JHS, will go on double sessions. Hours will be from 6:30 to 6P.M. We are projected to have app. 2300 students. A decision has not been made if we will have an additional librarian and additional aide time. Should be an interesting year that will extend to a minimum of three years if a new school bond election fails next fall. If an additional librarian is not hired will the library be open to students and classes with only an aide to supervise when I'm not on campus? We are a very modern library with 10 student workstations where students have a large menu of CD ROM reference sources from which to choose . Our CD ROMs are daisy chained and served from a file server locked in an office. There is also modem access from any workstation in the library./ Within a month we should offer the ability for students to call our library from home and use our card catalog. Everything seems to be secure but ----- what if something happens and I'm not in the building to fix?????? I'm sure things will work out --- but we want to keep the excellent service that we offer to students. It's a concern. By the way --- our district usually needs certified librarians each year. We are a very large district and have librarians in elementary, middle schools, and high schools. If you know of any librarians who are job hunting - Las Vegas might be an idea.. Roxanne Boyce, Librarian Johnson JHS Library 7701 Ducharme Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89128 702-799-4480 Ext. 230 mez1zo@nevada.edu