Re: Your mail

["Rita Kaikow (Oceanside High School)" <K12OCKZR@VAXC.HOFSTRA.EDU>]

I originally sent this directly to Morgan.  But after having seen several
responses sent to the entire list, I felt that it should be viewed by all least
others rush to react.

>Morgan,
>
>Before anyone responds to this, I hope that you can take some time to resubmit
>it and give more details as to: size of school; size of collection; number of
>members of support staff; library hours; is schedule fixed by choice?; is
>Library a "prep" time relief for teachers?; is librarian given enough time and
>help to properly manage the "behind the scenes" needs of the library?; who
>would be there to lend support for the time that it takes to handle any new
>technology.  etc. [BTW  My Library is fully automated.  And I have support
>staff and a colleague.  Neverthless, time to do it all is still tight!]

>>From: IN%"mallsup@ENAN.UNM.EDU"  "Morgan Allsup"  3-JAN-1995 23:17:56.38
>>To:   IN%"LM_NET@SUVM.SYR.EDU"  "Multiple recipients of list LM_NET"
>>CC:
>>Subj:
>>

>>I am a technology teacher and a technology using classroom teacher at my schoo
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>>(K-8).  I wish to pose the following question to library professionals:  How
>>common and how acceptable in your profession is the librarian who only allows
>>students access to the library during their class' regularly scheduled weekly
>>period, who shows videos for a large part of that time leaving only 10 minutes
>>foraccess to books and who refuses to have technology in the library for
>>students to use?  I only recently began working at this school and find it har
 d
>>to believe that most of the teachers and the administration are happy with thi
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>>situation.  I am interested in any comments from the subscribers to LM_NET.
>>Morgan Allsup

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