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Subject: ELEM: farm books rom owner-lm_net@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Thu Jan 2 12:57:43 1997 Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:36:54 -0600 unit on farm communities and would like me to find a fiction book depicting current farm life. Any good ideas? ****************************************************************************+* Jennifer M.Lyons St. Paul's Academy jlyons@oswego.edu 115 #E. 5th Street jwlyons@mailbox.syr.edu Oswego, New York 13126 ****************************************************************************** From: Konnie Wightman <konda_wightman@MAIL.LMO.BISMARCK.K12.ND.US> Subject: Target: Elementary certified librarians Happy New Year to all LM_Netters! I have a question that needs input from librarians working in elementary libraries. Our school district has 3 middle schools and 2 high schools each directed by one LMS and one assistant (part-time in the middle schools). We have 16 elementary libraries (grades K-6) in which aides work part time. This is my second year in the position of "Elementary Library Coordinator". What this title really means is that I am the only certified librarian for all 16 elementary libraries. My position is the first in a five year plan to hire "additional" certified librarians. Last year nothing was done, but this year I have been asked to write a proposal to hire two more certified librarians to work with me. My job tasks these last two years have been mainly to help with an automation project that has been in the making for several years and finally came to fruition during the past year. It involves some training of library staff, getting facilities ready for hardware and making sure everyone is aware of what's going on. Additionally, I conduct meetings for all the 16 library assistants,visit each library once or twice a month, chair the library standing committee (made up of the secondary librarians), serve on various committees that plan curriculum or automation, work some with the library assistants on curriculum planning, and help coordinate ordering in the elementary libraries. When I have time I try to find materials that would help the assistants prepare lessons for teaching library skills, which they pass on to the teachers. I have very little time for this, but I feel this is important. What I need to know is: 1. Do any of you have experience working multiple schools? 2. What job tasks do you assume in each of the schools? 3. What job tasks do your assistants assume? 4. Do you have a full time assistant in each school? If not, how much time? 5. Do you do all the library skills teaching yourself or do you work with the classroom teachers to do this? 6. Do you have fixed or flexible schedules? For which grades? 7. Who is in the library when you are gone? Is it always open? 8. Do you do all the story, checking-out times, or do the assistants do it? 9. What do you feel should be the main components of my plan? Should I focus on curriculum planning or library skills teaching, or what? 10. It looks as though the 3 people would have to divide the schools up by size, so one or more of us would have charge of 5-6 schools. Does anyone have any suggestions for how this could be organized? 11. Do any of you working in multiple school situations have an overall director or coordinator and what does that person do? Any help you can give me on this will be very much appreciated! Please send to my e-mail address, or if you have job descriptions you would be willing to share, I would like to send you a self-addressed, stamped envelope to receive a copy. Please indicate in an e-mail message if you have something to mail to me. Thanks! Konnie Wightman Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:02:40 -0600 From: Web66 <lm_net@SEC.MICRO.UMN.EDU> Subject: Re: HyperStudio for DOS/WIN Responding to the message of <1359914869-1142680156@sec.micro.umn.edu> from noj868tg@weber.k12.ut.US: > > I've been told that HyperStudio is available on the Windows platform. > I can't seem to spot it in the software catalogs. Yes, it is available. See: http://www.rwp.com/ We have it, it seems to work well, but we haven't put it into production yet.