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I'm also thinking of starting several advisory committees at my school.
I posted a target on this a short while ago, and the only advice I
received at that time was not to get parents involved because they will
start to feel a sense of ownership, and that will open up a whole can of
worms concerning censorship issues and such.

I think that perhaps this is an area where we feel some guilt--wanting
to involve others which seems the right thing to do, but not wanting to
lose control of our domain. In the past when I had to have a parents'
advisory council I usually put one together from parents who also happen
to be on our faculty.

At any rate, you may want to discuss further with your principal how
much control he plans to give the members of the advisory committee and
how much he will back you up on censorship issues.

Deb Waugh
Librarian/Instructional Technologist
The Emmett G. Shufflebarger Library
at Graham High School
Bluefield, Virginia
debwaugh@frontiernet.net


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From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Robin Boltz
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 8:21 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: TARGET: Starting Adv. Comm.

Hello All:

My principal has tasked me this year with starting a Media Advisory
Committee. I've checked the archives, and the last substantial post
about forming such a group was in 1994. So I'd like to pick your brains
on the issue.

Have you had good luck or bad with a MAC? What are the best/worst things
about working by committee? Were the members appointed or volunteers?
Could anybody share a list of duties performed by your members? How do
you use a MAC to promote your library to the faculty and administration?
Does a MAC help to promote teacher/librarian collaboration? Any further
things you would like to share that I may have forgotten?

Thanks for your help! I'll be happy to post a HIT if others are
interested.

Robin

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Robin Boltz, Library Teacher
Creedmoor Elementary, Creedmoor, NC
futuremlsecu@aol.com

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