GEN: LIBRARIAN POSITION IN JEOPARDY OF BEING CUT (a repost)

[Terry Cochran <trcochran@HOTMAIL.COM>]

I am reposting a request following a suggestion by one of you.  Thanks to
those that have responded already.

Help please.

The noted speaker and writer, Jamie McKenzie, has described the decline of
the library media center and services to students and staff, as
administrators look for ways to provide more money for technology and other
school costs.   Our library media center and my role as library media
specialist may be destined to become one of the statistics he speaks of as
our superintendent and his administrative team seek to cover a proposed
$250,000 deficit, brought on by high fuel costs, lack of a community tax
base for a referendum (just finished constructing a new building), former
Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson’s QEO requirements, and other
miscellaneous decisions over time.

Many proposed cuts are listed and yes, one of them is “lay-off a librarian”.
  I would appreciate your support as I attempt to alter the view of a high
school principal, who does not value a library media program, a retiring
middle school principal who is designing the rubric to validate their
budgetary decisions, and the superintendent, Bruce Anderson, who will submit
their proposal to the board once the recommendations are solidified.

I have researched ERIC and other sources, articles from Jamie McKenzie and
others, and my own professional organization, in order to make some sort of
educated organized rebuttal to the proposal.  I don’t know if their views
can be altered, but I must make an attempt.  I would appreciate your support
and responses to this.   If you can help, please take a few moments to email
your thoughts to them.  Thanks so much.

Terry Cochran
Library Media Specialist        terryc@boyceville.k12.wi.us
Boyceville Jr/Sr. High School
Boyceville, WI

Bill Fisher, HS Principal billf@boyceville.k12.wi.us
Jan Harvey, MS Principal janh@boyceville.k12.wi.us
Bruce Anderson, Superintendent brucea@boyceville.k12.wi.us

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