Gen: District Personnel

[Mary Ann Shaffer <ShafferMAS@AOL.COM>]

    I work for a district that is proud to call itself the 16th largest in
the nation.  There are 96 elementary schools; 25 middle schools and 13 high
schools with a combined enrollment of just over 137,000 students.  We do not
have, however, a coordinator at the district level for the media specialists.
 This is only my second year in the profession, so maybe I'm missing
something, but it seems to me that someone at the district level to work both
with the media specialists - or the clerical workers that take care of many
of our media centers - to answer questions and to work with various vendors
to get the best pricing for supplies and various software contracts would be
very advantageous.  I know in a perfect world every individual school would
be paying the same price for each item it purchased, but I think there are a
lot of vendors that sell things 'cheaper by the dozen.'  I also know there is
a LOT to be said for only having to answer to the personnel in your own
school, but I am curious as to how many large, say over 50,000 students, do
not have a media coordinator at the district level.
    TIA for any light you can shed on my dim view.

Mary Ann Shaffer
Media Specialist
Carver Middle School
Orlando, FL
shaffermas@aol.com

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