Scheduling

["Madeline L. Buchanan" <mlbuchan@WWISP.COM>]

With a new year approaching, I would like to know of the ways that different
librarians come up with their schedule for the new year.  I operate on a
partly fixed, partly flexible schedule in which the K-5 students are
scheduled two days out of the week and the rest of the week is flexible,
giving the middle school a chance to use the library.  This year the
principal organized a library task force who is helping me to come up with a
schedule that is workable and serves all of the students.  He has some great
ideas that I go along with.  However, I am finding that the scheduling
committee has come up with a library schedule with no input from me.  The
same thing is happening with music, art, P.E., etc.  We are supposed to have
a library task force meeting in a week or two to discuss the role of the
library and how it is to best serve the students, and I hope the principal
will listen to our input.

I would like to know how many schools have schedules handed to the librarian
by the principal, how many schedules are a result of cooperative planning
between administration, librarian, and teachers, and how many schools have
schedules that are set up by a scheduling committee and just handed to
teachers, librarians, music, art, P.E., etc. with no regards to how it can
best serve the students.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Madeline L. Buchanan, Library Media Specialist
W. J. Christian School, Birmingham, Alabama  35206
Phone (205) 838-7666 or 838-7673
Fax (205) 838-7622
mlbuchan@wwisp.com
http://members.wwisp.com/~mlbuchan/
http://www.scott.net/~wjc/

Progress is slow because nothing is ever invented and perfected at the same
time.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=
All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law.
 To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to:
   listserv@listserv.syr.edu          In the message write EITHER:
    1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST
 4) SET LM_NET MAIL  * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv
 For LM_NET Help & Archives see:  http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=