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Maureen Simmons wrote:
B)  I wonder if your schools have plans to transform Library Media
Specialists and Technology Specialists into Cybrarians in the future.
Cybrarians would combine the talents of research and computer technology to
help students retrieve and also create on the web.  Or would the Computer
Science Teacher and the English Teacher vie for that assignment?  How
strongly does the Internet play into your current responsibilities and your
future responsibilities and career plans?

In my school (and, I suspect, in many across the country) we are already
doing this.  I have used the internet with students from 2nd grade up, and
taught older students to write web pages.  Additionally, I provide internet
training for teachers and administrators. The computer science instructor
in the high school is taking things further with his students--the kids
will be creating web pages for local businesses this fall.

The internet, in my opinion, is just another possible source of information
for our students.  I was not trained for this in library school, possibly
because the web was so new then, but I did learn how to use email and
gopher.

School Library Media Activities Monthly had an editorial about this subject
recently.  The gist of it was (I think) that those of us who seize the
chance to learn and use the new technology are going to be more secure in
our jobs than those who don't.  Information, in ANY form, is our business.

Sylvia Adair, Library Media Specialist
Lomira, Wisconsin
adair@execpc.com (Home) or sadair@lomira.k12.wi.us (School)


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