Dear LM_Net,
Anytime we can get teachers away from using the textbook and teaching with other
materials, including using library materials is a plus. There are several
research studies that show learning in the classroom is significantly higher
when teachers use information sources instead of textbooks in the classroom.
Susan should continue to encourage her teachers to use periodical information in
their classrooms.
However, there may be alternative ways for Susan to get this material to the
classroom and expand what is already being taught in the classroom. Many
electronic information subscription services can be expanded to the classroom
and home. Susan can use the money spent on additional periodical copies to
purchase one or two electronic periodical sources (e.g., ProQuest, inetlibrary,
etc.). Students and classroom teachers would have access to thousands of
periodicals instead of just one subscription.
If I was Susan I would research electronic periodical sources to see if she
could expand the teachers' use of periodicals in the classroom. Instead of
taking away resources from the teachers (which is a fight she doesn't want to
have), she can be a hero by making the classroom a better learning center for
students and teachers.
Peter G. Mohn, LMS
Snohomish Freshman Campus
Snohomish, WA
pmohn@foxinternet.net
Susan Speranza wrote:
> Hello everyone:
>
> As a new Library/Media Specialist, I would like your advice. I have
> discovered that my library budget pays for magazines that go to the teachers
> for them to use in their classrooms. Sometimes one teacher will get 4 copies
> of Business Week or Time Magazine. Since there are many magazines that have
> been ordered in quantity, I think the number of teachers that get this
> "service" is rather large. On the surface, I don't think this is a good idea
> - since these teachers are using these magazines often instead of textbooks -
> having their students cut out articles for projects, etc etc. I think if they
> are using them as textbooks, the departments should pay for them.
>
> My principal is very supportive of me and any new ideas I have brought him
> thus far. When I spoke to him about this, he suggested that I continue this
> tradition until the end of the year, then if I can come up with a better way
> to handle this he'd be willing to impliment it. Waiting until the next budget
> cycle would help ease the teachers into the new way, and also, if necessary,
> they can arrange for this expense to be taken from their budget next year.
>
> My questions are: am I being unreasonable in objecting to approaching
> magazine buying in this manner? What would be a better way to handle this
> situation? Personally, I believe that if the library buys magazines even at
> the request of teachers, those items should remain in the library, available
> for all - and it isn't necessary to duplicate and triplicate copies of the
> same magazine...But again, I'm new and I don't want to incite riot the first
> week I'm there! So any advice you can give me would be most welcomed...
>
> Susan Speranza
> School Media Specialist
> Bellows Falls Union High School
> Bellows Falls, VT
> SSper60121@aol.com
>
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