Re: Uneducated "librarians"

[Joni J Rathbun <jrathbun@OREDNET.ORG>]

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Seth and Betsy Budney wrote:


> I know I'll get flak for this next statement, but, I also feel that
> teachers with endorsements are missing vital training that librarians with
> master's degrees possess.  Yet, they are hired, and the schools are
> grateful to have them.  In a profession where the professional pickings are
> lean, schools will do what they feel they must to service the children.
>

Yes, you will probably get flack for such a charitable statement.
It would be just as easily said that some schools hire librarians
without teaching degrees and are grateful to have them even tho
they do not have the same rigorous background in curriculum and
instruction school media specialists have.

Perhaps we need a MLS-MS program that is common among states.
I don't know. But I'm growing weary of the divisions we
create among ourselves. We are going to be our own demise.



   J. Rathbun | Library Teacher - Media Specialist
   Lincoln Elementary School - Las Vegas
   jrathbun@orednet.org [home]
   The views I express are mine and mine alone.

  "Poetry and hums aren't things which you get, they're
   things which get you. And all you can do is to go
   where they can find you."

             -- Winnie the Pooh

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