Re: Berkeley

[Peter Milbury <pmilbur@EIS.CALSTATE.EDU>]

Dear LM_NET Colleagues,

   I couldn't agree more with Mike Eisenberg (see below) that LM_NET
members across the entire country, and around the world should contact
Nancy Van House, the Acting Dean of the School of Library and Information
Studies at U. C. Berkeley regarding the inclusion of an emphasis for
school librarians in their new programs.  School libraries should not just
be given lip service, but a true emphasis, with energetic,
technology-oriented professors of national prominence who come from a K-12
background.

   One of the reasons that school library programs have suffered and
declined in California is that we have been abandoned by the entire
University of California system and the California State University
system, especially at U.C. Berkeley (except for San Jose State, a shining
star for California school libraries, and Chico State, which has
manitained a small but excellent school library media teacher credential
program.) It has been decades since the California universities here have
provided any true leadership.  It is easy to see where it has led to:
Decline in support for public libraries, and now, decline in support for
academic libraries.  It is amazing that they failed to see the connection!

Write to:
>  Nancy Van House
>  Acting Dean, School of Library and Information Studies
>  University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
>  INTERNET nav-lis@cmsa.berkeley.edu BITNET nav-lis@ucbcmsa

Peter
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Peter G. Milbury        Library Media Teacher / Mentor Teacher
Co-owner of LM_NET:  The School Library Media Discussion Group
pmilbur@eis.calstate.edu       ~       Voice/Fax: 916-891-3060
Pleasant Valley High School, 1475 East Avenue, Chico, CA 95926
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On Sun, 13 Mar 1994, Mike Eisenberg wrote:

> As a followup to the previous message, I suggest that library media
> specialists from California and the rest of the country communicate with
> the Acting Dean and others at Berkeley to ensure that school library
> media is viewed as an integral part of the new school configuration.  We
> realize that library & information programs in schools already encompass the
> full, 21st C scope of information work. Forward looking info schools
> understand this. Let's make sure that Berekely joins that group.
>
> Mike
>