Re: GEN: New Librarians

["Irwin - Maureen S." <msirwin@UMD5.UMD.EDU>]

Congratulations to Jan!  I remember plowing through the Michigan SLMS
licensing exam and being uncertain about the Dewey questions.  I thanked
my
cooperating librarian at the Friends School in Detroit for insisting I
shelve books even though the advisor of my program assured me this was not
a "professional" task!  I think even the schools that have excellent
school media degree programs forget that at many, many schools, the
library is a "one-horse show;" there are no paraprofessionals, no clerks,
no cataloguers.  We have to learn to do it all, and we better know our
Dewey. Fortunately, shelving books is a great way to learn, and become
very familiar with those sections of your current library that are well
used. (When I went from an all-girls middle school to a co-ed HS I
quickly learned the numbers for crime, skateboarding, race cars, war and
weapons).
Those of us who are blessed with interns from local programs should be
alert to those day-to-day details which get short shrift in formal
programs.

Maureen S. Irwin
Director of the Library
Rye Country Day School
Rye, N.Y.

msirwin@umd5.umd.edu    **Any book you have not read is a new book ;-)**

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