Re: Noise in the Library

["dtissair@snet.net" <dtissair@SNET.NET>]

Laura,
         Cheer-up it could be worse.  In the city where I used to work, a
K-8 school of the kind and era you describe was built in what was a high
crime district.  The library was indeed the "hub of the school."  The
library is without walls in the middle of the great hall.  Every time there
is a class change or a kid goes to the bathroom there is traffic through
the library.  Kids not only steal, destroy or "re-arrange" books, they
crawl into empty cupboard and shelves to hide.  The LMS, with no aide, has
a fixed schedule of SFA Reading and K-3 library classes that leave him four
"prep" periods a week to be a librarian for the rest of the school.  And
the system wonders why they can't keep a LMS there.

Dorothy

At 08:06 PM 10/23/2001 -0400, Laura Strickland wrote:
>Tell me about it! The library at the middle school where I work has no doors
>to lock, partial walls and no ceiling. It was built in the 70's (as you
>probably guessed) and the entire school was designed in the "open concept".
>For a year and a half now, the classrooms are all being remodeled to get
>walls and doors...however, there is no room in the budget for the media
>center. I too wonder about the sanity of a person who would design a library
>without a ceiling, no doors to lock to secure our collection, and only
>partial walls. Noise in this library is simply a part of life.  We just try
>to keep it down to reasonable level.
>
>Laura Strickland, LMS
>Mayport Middle School
>Atlantic Bch, FL  32233
>
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Dorothy E. Tissair, M.L.S.
Library Media Specialist

Old Saybrook, CT  06475

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