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From: School Library Media & Network Communications on Thu, Apr 30, 1998 4:53
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Subject: LM_NET Digest - 30 Apr 1998 - Special issue
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Date:    Thu, 30 Apr 1998 15:59:12 -0500
From:    Naomi Lloyd <lloyd@ALEXIA.LIS.UIUC.EDU>
Subject: HIT: Shareware for 1) serials management and 2) spine label
production

Here are is the hit list for shareware for printing labels and managing
serials (no suggestions for the latter):

Just to let you know how periodicals are handled here at Douglas County
Library System in Roseburg, Oregon.  We do not use any software for
periodical management but I do use our PC to produce labels.  In the
past, we purchased spine labels directly from EBSCO subscription
services but I have found it more efficient to use the WordPerfect
program and Avery laser file folder labels #5366.

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We are using locally created WordPerfect 5.1 macros for spine label
production.  They work great.

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Naomi, I am using a product in which I downloaded from the internet, It
is
called InfoWorks for OCLC Cataloging.  The url is found below:


http://www.itcompany.com/

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Naomi

--
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources, Librarian
310 Johnston Terminal, 25 Forks Market Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 4S8, CANADA
lloyd@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu or cierlib@mb.sympatico.ca

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Date:    Thu, 30 Apr 1998 22:23:20 +0300
From:    Earl Sande <sandes@WILKEN-DSM.COM>
Subject: Re: FW: library aide

Sadly, you're right about more and more schools not hiring
teacher-librarians to do the job required/expected.  And I commend you on
your initiative, both with the librarian who never shows up and for trying
to upgrade your skills any way you could.  I do, however, see a few problems
that needs to be addressed by your administration and teaching staff:

first, if the librarian is being paid to show up, you doing her job doesn't
solve either your problem or hers.  In fact, it does just the opposite in
that it shows the admin. that "anyone can do it" and they will never take
the initiative to hire what is needed.  It also allows them to pay you
considerably less (probably) than what you are really worth and, I
guarantee, adding responsibility after responsibility to your shoulders that
are far from what your original contract agreed to.  Of course, if the
librarian can run a successful library by not dividing her time, that will
never be considered in the decision-making process;

second, I have had wonderful aides like you who have taken added
responsibilities, developed skills,  and so on.  But, trained
teacher-librarians, if they are any good, have had a wide variety of
training that was meant to give them methods and expertise in not only how
to find or catalog a book, but to provide reader services, educational
programmes, and a host of other topics that you can catch glimmers of, but
not fully comprehend.  Please, I'm not demeaning your initiative or your
capabilities, but going full time to university for five years or more is
necessary.  Would you take your sick child to someone you knew was
interested but only read widely in medicine?  I think not.  A "REAL"
teacher-librarian should be able to integrate the education going on in each
and every classroom in the school with an instructional programme and
resources in the library, to work as an equal to the classroom teacher in
every respect.  What has been happening is that some teacher-librarians have
not insisted on that role, taking the easier way of simply checking out
books, and the admin. have picked up on that, arguing that cheaper ways can
be available by using untrained workers.  And classroom teachers have not
come to view teacher-librarians as having any knowledge beyond the Dewey
Decimal System, so can not treat them as equals in educating the child.

Yet, I bet, the same administration that hired you also expects you to
assume the role of the teacher for library skills, to be responsible for
student supervision on your own, to do a whole host of things that, if we
were a Labor Union, we'd walk out if even on just the idea that we were not
being paid for the job that was (1) being changed and (2) had raised
expectations and responsibilities.

We have come a very long way from the 1960s when libraries were where you
retired a teacher to the library or used it to get the incompetent teacher
out of the regular classroom.  Much as I applaud your initiative, I'd hate
for the trend to grow further.

Administrators :  recognize that your own training and much research has
linked the quality of libraries you have with the success rates of the
children you have responsibility for;  hire qualified people who can be both
teacher and librarian and will insist on being part of the education process
of your school; insist that your school's library program is essential to
your school's needs and must be fully supported in terms of finance and
staffing. Do not curtail the library program by scheduling classes simply to
give the classroom teacher "preparation time."  And keep demanding from your
teacher-librarian the same expectations that you have of your other
teachers.  Use the same criteria to keep a good one, or to get rid of a bad
one.

And, teachers :  recognize that "Real" teacher-librarians have a vast array
of education that can support what you are accomplishing in your classroom,
expect high standards of cooperation between you two.  When you schedule
your class into the library, be sure that you have educational goals first
and that YOU are expected to participate in your classroom's experiences
there.  And, finally,  insist at every level that you, too, consider the
library experience essential to your students and must be fully supported.

In all my years of teaching and teacher-library-ing, I have found few
administrators who will not raise their levels of expectations if it is for
the good of their students and staff.

And I still hope that, if we could ever figure out who's actually making all
those significant budget cuts and could get to talk with them, we would have
not only a better school but a vastly improved education system as well.
Well, I can hope.....

Earl.

--
Earl Sande, Upper School Librarian,
International School of Tanganyika,
United Nations Road,
Post Office Box 2651,
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(e-mail : sandes@wilken-dsm.com)


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Date:    Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:51:19 EDT
From:    KATHLAU <KATHLAU@AOL.COM>
Subject: Humor:poetic error messages

 IMAGINE IF INSTEAD OF CRYPTIC, GEEKY TEXT STRINGS,YOUR COMPUTER
 PRODUCED ERROR MESSAGES IN HAIKU...

 > Yesterday it worked
 > Today it is not working
 > Windows is like that
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > A file that big?
 > It might be very useful.
 > But now it is gone.
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > The Web site you seek
 > cannot be located but
 > endless others exist
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > Chaos reigns within.
 > Reflect, repent, and reboot.
 > Order shall return.
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > ABORTED effort:
 > Close all that you have.
 > You ask way too much.
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > First snow, then silence.
 > This thousand dollar screen dies
 > so beautifully.
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > With searching comes loss
 > and the presence of absence:
 > "My Novel" not found.
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > The Tao that is seen
 > Is not the true Tao, until
 > You bring fresh toner.
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > Stay the patient course
 > Of little worth is your ire
 > The network is down
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > A crash reduces
 > your expensive computer
 > to a simple stone.
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > Three things are certain:
 > Death, taxes, and lost data.
 > Guess which has occurred.
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > You step in the stream,
 > but the water has moved on.
 > This page is not here.
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > Out of memory.
 > We wish to hold the whole sky,
 > But we never will.
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > Having been erased,
 > The document you're seeking
 > Must now be retyped.
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > Rather than a beep
 > Or a rude error message,
 > These words: "File not found."
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > Serious error.
 > All shortcuts have disappeared.
 > Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
 >
 >  - - - - - - - - - - - -
 >
 > Windows NT crashed.
 > I am the Blue Screen of Death.
 > No one hears your screams.
  >>

Kathy Lauzon                                 732-613-6855
Media Specialist K-5                       732-257-2034 (FAX)
Frost School                                     KATHLAU @aol.com
65 Frost Ave.
East Brunswick, N.J. 08816

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