Re: Playing the Name Game

[Anna Watkins <watkins@CRL.COM>]

On Wed, 2 Nov 1994 ROWHALEY@UCS.INDIANA.EDU wrote:
When I started at my school, the computer/technology coordinator and I
were able to join together to form our own department.  I have never
liked "media center / specialist" etc. because it makes me think of a TV
studio.  Our department is called Technology and Information, which just
about covers it, I think.

Anna Watkins
Paideia School
Librarian (I'm still working on that title - I like Library Information
Specialist, but it's kind of long)

>
> Computers and other forms of technology have been creeping into the mix and th
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> Superintendent wants the department to have a name that more closely reflects
> where we are today.
>
> I am too much of a traditionalist to leave out the school library/media
> centers, but computer technology and training have become a major part of the
> department's work.  Does anyone have an idea for a new title for the
> department?
>
> I thought that the "Department of the Information Infrastructure" had a certai
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> ring to it, but my wife has the veto vote |->.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Roger Whaley   (ROWHALEY@ucs.indiana.edu)
> New Albany-Floyd County Schools
> New Albany, IN  on the sunny side of Louisville
>