Re: Administration Certificate

[Union-Endicott Central School District <libser1@TRANSIT.NYSER.NET>]

I second Betty's comments.   In many ways, school librarians begin
administrative experience from day one on the job.   Library media
specialists learn to manage staff and budget, balance the needs of
students and teachers, communicate,  walk tightropes,  give free
psychiatric advice to teachers,  learn assertiveness from teachers who
plan (plan??) that research unit for the week before winter break, and
other such things that administrators do every day.   More importantly,
school library media specialists learn how to learn, and they share what
they have learned every day.

Getting that administrative certificate will make you a better librarian,
and it will also prepare you for an administrative job, should an
attractive offer find you.    Sometimes you do have to compromise, as you
will note by my title below.

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Gail Dickinson
Coordinator of Library Media, Occupational Education,
        and Instruction
Union-Endicott Central School District
Endicott, NY 13760

                                "a wild patience has taken me this far"
                                        --Adrienne Rich (Integrity)