Re: Librarians and reading

[Carl Seale <CSeale@HILLSBORO.NET>]

I really did not intend to get into this discussion . . . but.  I love to
read, but after teaching literature for 20 years (even though I have been
in the library for 10 years now), I find it difficult to read a book
without dissecting it.  However, that does not mean that I do not read.  I
read the newspaper every day and read a number of magazines.  I do read
books, but usually either short ones or nonfiction that I can read a
chapter of and put down for several days before going back to it.

In the category of "I do not read," I always think of a friend who said he
never read.  The problem was that he did not think of the magazines on cars
and hobbies as reading.  He read many things, but did not consider it
reading because it was not novels or fiction.

Sometimes we say things without thinking of exactly what we are saying.
The librarian at the convention who said she did not read may well fit into
that category.

*  Carl Seale, Librarian
cseale@hillsboro.net  *
*  Fort Worth ISD
      Fort Worth TX *
*
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*                No matter where you go, there you are.
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> From: J'aime Foust <jfoust@MUM.NERIC.ORG>
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: Librarians and reading
> Date: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 2:24 PM
>
> Michelle wrote:
>
> >I was talking to a high school English teacher from another district.  I
> >was telling him about some good ya books and he was astounded that I was
> >interested in reading because he said that all his media specialist is
> >interested in is the Internet!!  Oh well.  Michele
> >
>
> Why must it be either / or??!!  "We" are falling into a trap - we must
> either have computers OR print.  It is easier to do a lot of research on
the
> Internet, but I can't snuggle up with a good program at night - I prefer
a
> book.  The future (at least the foreseeable future) must include both.  I
> think we are doing our students a disservice by allowing them to believe
> that the only way is via technology.  Truth is, our internet service is
so
> slow, and the students have yet to be taught proper online research (my
goal
> next year) that they find more sources, better sources, and faster, in
print
> in the library.  Coincidence?  I think not.
>
> J'aime L. Foust, Librarian
> Queensbury High School
> 409 Aviation Rd.
> Queensbury, NY  12804
> (518) 793-8811, Fax 742-6045
> jfoust@mum.neric.org
>
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