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On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, T K Cassidy wrote: > Re: What do you do all day?? > > > As one who considers herself a LIBRARIAN vs a TEACHER, and who firmly > > believes that even schools should have school *LIBRARIANS* what I try to > > focus on is library work, beginning with the most obvious and accessible: > > I believe this in my heart as well...but, as I have been point blank told by a > principal (not here) ..... "If you want the "big bucks" like teacher, you > better act like a teacher!" After I picked my jaw up off the ground at her > affront, I dropped it again at the idea of teachers making "big" bucks! Can > you imagine what she would pay a mere librarian if we weren't lumped with > teachers???? Yet when I have monitored public library positions (a number of such announcements are made on another list to which I subscribe), I have observed they routinely offer lower pay than my certified teacher-librarian position pays -- and are also year round positios. ========================================================================== "Obscenity and hate speech alike only become free speech issues when their foes turn from censure to censorship. When we decided to let a thousand flowers bloom, we always knew that some of them would be weeds." -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., educator, c. 1990 ========================================================================= J. Rathbun, Library Teacher Lincoln E.S., North Las Vegas Email: jrathbun@orednet.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.html See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=