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From owner-lm_net@LISTSERV.SYR.E U Thu May 20 09:57:59 1999 Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 16:32:55 -0500 ormat. --------------27BE5AC5447D641FA7E3ACA4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here are some of the responses that I received. Thanks to everyone who replied. You all are great! _________________________________________________________________________ I did a Start/Stop/Continue survey that consisted of the following: 1. a cover letter that explained the purpose of the survey to be informational only I said (more or less), "If your grade level was in charge of the library/school what changes would be made and what would be kept?" 2. a page with the word KEEP at the top they then brainstormed things they would continue 3. a page with the word STOP at the top they then brainstormed things they would discontinue 4. a page with the word START at the top they then brainstormed things they would like to see Some of it was very revealing, some of them wanted and wanted and wanted (just like the bunny). It gave me a good excuse to stop reading stories to 2nd grade (YES, more time to do REAL stuff) __________________________________________________________ This survey is designed for a high school library, but you could revise it according to what you want to know. For your first survey, the answers to the bottom questions will probably give you an idea of what to track with the survey you write next year. Evaluation of Nerinx Library Please put a check mark before the statements that apply to you. Please answer the questions on the back. Thanks for the help...........Mrs. Winkler 1. I am a: _______Freshmen_______Sophomore____Junior_______Senior______Faculty 2. I need to know more about how to do research. _____Strongly Agree________ Agree________Disagree_______ Disagree Strongly 3. No one will help me. _____Strongly Agree________ Agree________Disagree_______ Disagree Strongly 4. The atmosphere in the library helps me to study. _____Strongly Agree________ Agree________Disagree_______ Disagree Strongly 5. The resources I need to start research are available in the Nerinx Library. _____Strongly Agree________ Agree________Disagree_______ Disagree Strongly 6. Posters and displays in the library inspire me to want to read. _____Strongly Agree________ Agree________Disagree_______ Disagree Strongly 7. When I go to college, I will be ready to use a university library. _____Strongly Agree________ Agree________Disagree_______ Disagree Strongly 8. I visited the Nerinx Library web page (www.nerinxhs.org/Lib.html). _____Yes _____No. If yes, how do you like the links to magazines and other libraries and to recommended search tools? What would make this webpage more helpful for you? Over please 9. What is best about the Nerinx Library? What should we be sure that it continues to do? 10. What is worst about the Nerinx Library? What should we stop doing? 11. What could the Nerinx Library be doing that it is not doing now? 12. Further comments: ________________________________________________________________ I used ALA forms that I found in "Power Tools: Forms and Presentations". It was general enough to gather the information that I needed. I am in a high school so I also did a student survey. --------------27BE5AC5447D641FA7E3ACA4 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="sfiedler.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Stephanie Fiedler Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="sfiedler.vcf" begin:vcard n:; tel;fax:(919) 233-4344 tel;work:(919) 233-4327 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Swift Creek Elementary School version:2.1 email;internet:sfiedler@swiftcreek.wake.k12.nc.us title:Media Coordinator adr;quoted-printable:;;5601 Tryon Road=0D=0A;Raleigh;NC;27606; fn:Stephanie L. Fiedler end:vcard --------------27BE5AC5447D641FA7E3ACA4-- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= 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 3) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv For LM_NET Help & Archives see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-= From: Harry Willems <harryw@MIDUSA.NET> Subject: Gen: Framing the Message I've lurked behind the landscape watching and listening to the discussion thread concerning Dr. Laura and ALA. I've heard reasoned statements about the issue of censorship and the connection as it filters into the school library domain. I've also heard a lot of "jr. high justice". Censorship effects all school librarians and libraries. I've worked with several school libraries when they've had books challenged. This is the issues on which we should frame the discussion. The fall out from Dr. Laura will ignite passions that spread to high school collections, and filtered/unfiltered Internet access. Filters are assumed to provide all necessary protection to kids, but teach them nothing about responsibility after school, and unfiltered access in the business world and college campuses. School mission statements usually refer to preparing students for civic responsibility, but tethering them artificially to "good information" in electronic or print format, does little to make the kind of citizens the world will need in the 21th century. Lest anyone should think that I mean unreasoned collection development, I don't. But allowing small segments of the population to dictate what is, and what isn't family friendly, smacks of disintegration of freedom. We all know that if freedom disintegrates slowly enough, most won't notice or even care. My conservative Mennonite reaction is to encourage changing the world one person at a time, like the "Good Book" commands. Let libraries serve all who pay taxes to support the library, and school district. The easy way out is to censor. Harry Willems, Assistant Director Southeast Kansas Library System 218 E. Madison Iola, KS 66749 harryw@midusa.net Harry Willems http://www.sekls.lib.ks.us/staff/willems Consultant, Assistant Dir. Southeast Kansas Library System Iola, KS 66749 Fax: 316.365.5137 Vox: 316.365.5136 “We die only when we run out of footprints. Then the biographers move in to retrace our paths, enclosing them all in tall mazes of lumber to make our lives seem more complex, more arduous, to make our leaving the room seem heroic.” --Billy Collins =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. 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