Re: TARGET: advice for your successor

[Benjamin School Mary Stewart Lewis]

Alice Yucht wrote:
>
> If you were leaving your current position (for any reason)
> and decided to leave information for your successor to help
> ease the transition, what kinds of data
> would you consider necessary and/or helpful?
>

Great question!  I have walked into a new job where the only information
that was left was a bill for Reader's Guide!  Here's my list:

1.  Circulation procedures
2. Processing procedures
3. Services that have been offered and are now expected.
4.  Past programming that faculty will probably be expected to continue.
5.  Selection policy - any challenged materials in the past?
6.  Jobbers used
7. A couple of years worth of PO's to get an idea of what and who.
8.  Next year's budget. List of any items already ordered/money spent
9.  list of staff/faculty who have always been supportive.
10. Discipline procedures
11. Any items that they would change given the chance.
12. Any school traditions that are considered "sacred"
13. List of where "things" are - supplies ect. in the media center and
in the school.
14. List of past parent volunteers with phone numbers.
15. Schedule

Mary Stewart Lewis, Director of Library Media Services
The Benjamin School
11000 Ellison Wilson Rd., North Palm Beach, Fl. 33408
marystewart_lewis@benjaminschool.com