Re: GEN: Clueless Administrators

[Joan Bennert <jbenner1@maine.rr.com>]

Hi,  I agree an article(s) should be written, and it should be submitted
to the journals that teachers and administrators read.  However, I have
found it very difficult to get library related subjects printed in
"Educational Leadership,"   for example. We need to get ourselves booked
into the conferences that administrators and teachers attend. We need to
create videos for public TV.  I maintain that most administrators and
teachers do not have a clue what a library should look like in today's
world. In Maine most school libraries (high school is the exception)
have been staffed with aides or Ed Techs. Most library media specialists
do not have the staff that will allow them to run an exciting and busy
library, but instead they spend all their time doing the familiar
library jobs of collection development, filing and cataloguing.  If the
administrators do not have the vision, they cannot make it happen. They
will continue to hire a librarian rather than a teacher/librarian.
(LMS)  At our state conference we discussed how we can showcase a real
library, and decided we will have to get out of our libraries to do it.
Joan

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Joan N Bennert
Falmouth Middle School
52 Woodville Rd
Falmouth, ME 04105
H: 207-781-5640
mailto:jbenner1@maine.rr.com

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