Our district mandated extreme cutbacks on periodical subscriptions.
Individual buildings are not allowed to purchase professional journals with
district money. Our district "Educational Resource Center" is in charge of
the routing of all professional journals to faculty who request them. I am
in my eighth month of this new situation, and the obvious "pro" is
conservation and responsibility. I have to get the journal read, make my
selections, and get the journal off in a week. They don't get stacked up as
they have in years past. Of course the "con" is the timeliness of the issue,
and convenience of reading at my leisure. The publisher must be feeling this
lack of revenue; certainly Omaha Public Schools isn't the only district
making such decisions. This would be one explanation to the increase in
subscription price.
KAM
Kristel A. Mayberry, school librarian
Central High School/Omaha Public Schools
124 North 20th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
voice: 402.557.3316 fax: 402.557.3339
http://info2.ops.org/llibrarycentral
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