Substitute teachers for librarians

["Madeline L. Buchanan" <mlbuchanan1@home.com>]

When I am out I am required to get a substitute to stay in the library.
Fortunately there are several now who can operate the circulation computer
so that the students can check out books.  However, I come back to school
most of the time to find that the substitute has been pulled from the
library to be used in another classroom where a teacher didn't find his or
her own.

The substitutes that I have chosen enjoy working in the library but I am
afraid that they will not want to come for me because they know that they
will be put in a classroom.  It is upsetting to take the time to train a
substitute to operate the circulation computer and then have them sent
elsewhere.  If the principal didn't insist that I get a substitute it
wouldn't be a problem, but it is hard to take when I wake up feeling bad and
then have to spend time on the telephone trying to get someone to take my
place.

Does anyone else have this problem or what do you do when you are out?

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Madeline L. Buchanan
Library Media Specialist
W. J. Christian School (K-8)
Birmingham, AL
Voice: (205) 231-5277 or 838-7666
Fax: (205) 231-5279
Email: mlbuchanan1@home.com
http://members.home.com/mlbuchanan1/
http://www.wwisp.com/~wwisp/

"The imagination should be allowed a certain
amount of time to browse around."
--Thomas Merton
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