Re: new job/first week

[Cathy Lattus <clattus@RAMS.NESD.K12.AR.US>]

I think it's time to end this thread!

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  Cathy Lattus, Media Specialist
  Woodrow Wilson Elementary
  900 West Emerson Street
  Paragould, Arkansas 72450
  (501)239-5252

On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Deborah Chaney wrote:

> Love all the thinking this topic has generated. I find it interesting
> that the people who want to justify how very busy they are, who don't
> think they can possibly begin on the first day, have taken the time to
> respond to EVERYONE on the list. But I have received so very many
> individual messages from librarians on this topic who totally agree, and
> who in fact open day one. And they too have all those tasks to complete,
> and som eof them have less than wonderful automation systems, and some of
> them have no aides to help them.
> Ah, the old "you're just an administrator who doesn't understand" logic.
> I knew that would surface......
>
> On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Anna J Russell wrote:
>
> > I too wonder if service beginning when the students return, is possible.
> > I don't believe it is.  In my case, the first week of school is spent
> > helping place children in classrooms and ESL testing was done in the
> > LMC.  I too have an outdated computer system that I must input students
> > and move students.  And this year  I returned to no system.  In my case I
> > have found that most teachers do not want library the first couple of
> > weeks.  I think that perhaps Deborah needs to return to the elementary
> > school for a year to see the real world.
> >      I would love to open the first day--I have been know to open the
> > second week.  It usually resulted in a disaster--and teachers requesting
> > to wait until at least the 3rd week.
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, James Mong wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Deborah Chaney
> > >
> > >  The point is: Service should begin when the students
> > > > return, just as it does for classroom personnel.
> > > > Deborah Chaney
> > > > Coordinator for Library and Media Services
> > > > Birdville (TX)ISD
> > > > chaney@tenet.edu
> > > >
> > > >
> > >         Well, I HAVE to say something about this statement.  It is a much
> > > desired thing to begin service as soon as the students come in the door.
> > > BUT, if you have no aide, a computer system that requires all new
> > > students to be put in by hand, all old ones updated and new barcodes
> > > printed out as well as trying to get a class list from a multitude of
> > > teachers, it is impossible.  On top of that there are books to be
> > > processed that weren't finished last year, Accelerated Reader records to
> > > be deleted, updated and passwords invented for 600 students.  This is
> > > just a sample of jobs to be done.
> > >         My point is this, it is a fine thing to begin service
> > > immediately, but if you are like most school librarians I know, the first
> > > week to ten days are a blur of getting ready to open the library and
> > > there are only dreams of immediate service.
> > >         Hey, I'm not really coming down on you Deborah. I just wanted to
> > > speak up for those librarians (like me) who have so little and are
> > > expected to give immediate satisfaction.  I enjoy the job, but it takes
> > > me longer than "now" to get it going.
> > >         My two cents.
> > >         James Mong
> > >
> > > Riverview Middle School-- Huntington, IN 46750
> > > jmong@neptune.esc.k12.in.us
> > >
> >
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