Re: life in the high school library-media center

[Michele Missner <missnerm@ATHENET.NET>]

I can only tell you what my typical day in a high school media center
looks like.  There are two library media specialists (myjob is split with
another media specialist because I am alos the program leader for the
department.)  The other media specialist opens the media center at 7:00
a.m.  She gets the daily newspapers and puts them out, turns on all of the
equipment, checks for interlibrary loan requests within the district and
gets the materials for ill.  She alos deals with overdues and takes care
of check in and check out before I arrive.  When I get there things are
already in motion.  We have students in and out all day long.  Ofter
classes are signed up for research.  If the teacher requests we come into
the classroom and give formal instruction, design handouts for finding
information with the best resources for the project.  We are working with
students informally all day long.  During this time, one of us sets up
satellite and cable programs for recording and showing out.  We  used to
do much more showing out but now almost all classrooms have tv monitors
connected to the cable.  During the time when we are not working with
students we may look for resources for teachers and students, shelve
books, put away other materials.  Any classroom, teacher, network
computers, copy machines, etc that break down, we are called to see if we
can fix them.  If not, we sent a request for repair or whatever to the
resources that do that.  We answer phone calls, etc.  The last person in
closes down all the computers, locks up, straightens up.  I am sure that
many things are left out, but this is an idea.  It is a very busy job.
\
Michele Missner

On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Bonnie Halfpenny wrote:

> If this were during the regular school year, I would know several people
> to ask, but it's not! Would anyone out there be able to describe a
> "typical" day in a large public high school library-media center?  For
> instance- do you usually have scheduled classes come in? For what exactly?
> Do you spend much time helping students one on one? Helping teachers? I
> know this sounds like a lot, but I don't really need a lot of detail- I'm
> trying to find out how the day is "structured", and how it compares to an
> elementary school position.  Thanks, if anyone can help.
> Bonnie Halfpenny, Librarian
> Ironwood Branch, Phoenix Public Library
> bhalfpen@lib.ci.phoenix.az.us
>
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Michele W. Missner,
Program Leader for Media Services       Library Media Specialist
Appleton Area School District           Appleton West High School
Office phone: (414) 832-4899            610 N. Badger Ave
Einstein Middle School                  Appleton Wi. 54914
email:  missnerm@athenet.net            phone: (920) 832-4162-work
(920)   730-0768 -home                   (920) 832-6239-fax
(920)   832-4899 (media center)
http://www.athenet.net/~westfive

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