Re: for your consideration...

["Anderson, Julie LHS-STAFF" <AndersonJ@ISSAQUAH.WEDNET.EDU>]

Well, for one thing, not every district funds the library from the district
office.  Most of the schools I'm aware of in the Puget Sound are funded
through the building budget.  The only local model I have to compare this to
is our custodians, who are not supervised at the building level but by a
central administrator.  The day crew is wonderful and does a great job.  The
night crew spends much of their time surfing the 'net.  (When we installed a
filter, the district discovered that most of the porn site hits were
occurring after 4 pm....)

Bottom line is that this could be very divisive and further isolate LMS's,
making collaboration with teachers more difficult.  I already feel pretty
alone.  I don't want to put more distance and walls between me and my
colleagues.

So, my 2 cents early in the morning,
Julie

Julie Anderson, Librarian
Liberty High School, a National Blue Ribbon School
Renton, WA
(425) 837-4901     andersonj@issaquah.wednet.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patricia Clark-Erskine [mailto:erskinep@MAIL.IPS.K12.IN.US]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 1:24 PM
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: for your consideration...
>
>
> I was thinking about this the other day, and an idea came to
> me that I =
> feel deserves merit.
>
> Why don't we consider the library, the library materials, and the =
> librarians as outsourced?  It occurs to me that doing so
> would eliminate =
> the conflicts regarding weeding, or scheduling, or any other issue =
> specific to libraries.  The monies to purchase the materials
> comes from =
> central, why shouldn't the management of the facility do so as well?
>
> The library would just be a satellite within the school
> building.  The =
> library issues such as flexible scheduling and material
> weeding would then =
> be made by those trained and experienced within the field.
>
> (Not that I haven't seen a head of library services that was NOT a =
> librarian!  Boy, was THAT a mistake!!)
>
> I think it is an idea who's time as come!  *grin*
>
> Patricia Clark-Erskine, M.S.
> Learning Resource Specialist
> Indianapolis, Indiana
> reply to:  erskinep@mail.ips.k12.in.us

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