Re: GEN: How we can be useful to teachers

["S. Griffith" <afn11720@AFN.ORG>]

I agree with some, but NOT all of this, comments below

Sandy in Florida
Media Specialist, Mulberry Middle School

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to
please everyone - Bill Cosby

Reply to afn11720@afn.org

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Donna Steel Cook wrote:

> The librarian should be sending teachers attractive information about new books 
>and materials as they arrive.
>
> The librarian should be coming to their classrooms to teach students how to more 
>easily get their research assignments accomplished.
SG-In middle school we have classes in all the time doing research, I
can't leave
>
> The librarian should be running some kind of reading promotion at all times.
>
> The librarian should be displaying student work in the library.
>
> The librarian should be ordering everything the teachers ask for that they need 
>for instruction (as much as the budget will allow).
>
SG-I sent forms out asking what do you want, I got THREE back, the kids
tell me what they want more than the teachers do.
> The librarian should be manipulating MARC records and equipment so that more 
>things are more easily accessible.
>
> The librarian should be making sure the library is open from the time teachers 
>must arrive on campus to time for them to go home--if not more.
>
SG-this is my pet peeve, I don't work any longer than the teachers do, and
it annoys me when someone beats on the door 15 minutes before school
begins, this is the time I use for the titlemaker, and the coffee
maker-important stuff ;-)

> The librarian should be writing Project Pathfinders for research assignments so 
>that students and teachers know what kinds of materials to look for in the library.
>
> The librarian should be composing and maintaing a webpage on the school site so 
>that students and teachers can search with confidence.
>
> Is that enough?

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