Re: LM_NET Digest - 21 Feb 1995 - Special issue

[Shelly Senator <ShellyBell@AOL.COM>]

I have been interested in the discussion about "what should we be called?"
 While I, too, like the "information specialist", I believe that it is the
"specialist" rather than "teacher" in our job title that helps to perpetuate
the "weekly death march to the library" to be taught something"special" by
the specialist in much the same way that the art and music teachers "do their
thing" without the presence of the classroom teacher.  I don't like "library
media teacher" but perhaps "information literacy teacher" will do it?  That
conveys all that we do, with the implication of lifetime learning as an
outcome.  And sends a message that our function is different from our cousins
in the public library.  Also, it tells the world that we are not just
 "bookies" or "techies" but the whole ball of wax.