I have compiled my results below. Since I did not clear it with the
senders, I have not included their signatures. A BIG thank you to each
of you who replied. mf
I am one of three Library Resource Specialists that work in our district
Media Services Department. We have some classified staff who process
all library books and AV going to our 53 school libraries. We also
handle all their P.O.s - they input while they are all routed for us to
troubleshoot and have when the orders come through us. We do
Professional Development for the Librarians, work as liasons with the
principal if necessary, provide technical support for their Follett
system. We also have a circulation center that has been available to
the teachers in the district for 20+ years. In that center we have
videos, dvds, professional books, kits, teaching sets that can be
searched and booked on line. We send them through our system's courier
to the teacher who checks them out. We just this year expanded that
circulation area into a Teacher Resource Center which has been in many
of our Kentucky counties. For this we added equipment and materials for
the teachers to use here: poster maker, ellison dies, laminator,
scanner, non-circulating magazines and teacher books. We also expanded
our hours one day a week to 6:00 to accommodate the teachers. We have
to use what staff we have so we can't really do more than one day a week
for that.
We are open all year, except when our system's offices are closed. We
have
also just been given ALL the materials that were in a Special Education
Teacher Resource Center. We are working furiously to get all this stuff
in our system.
Our librarians are teaching librarians and their schedules do not leave
room for them to process materials. We also receive larger discounts
from vendors since we are ordering for 100 sites and guarantee a certain
amount of money per year. Most of our elementary and several middle
school librarians have more than one school and no budget for
professional review sources. They are also able to do write-in orders
of books that do not appear in the catalog at the present time. After I
find reviews for the exam copies, they are processed and sent to the
district media center. They are kept separate for two years before they
are interfiled in the collection. That was librarians and teachers can
easily find and peruse the new books. The district media center
circulates over 10,000 books per month to various schools,
homeschoolers, college teachers and even the public. They are a vital
part of our curriculum support system for the schools which do not have
budget to purchase all the materials needed for meeting the standards or
research.
http://www.esc11.net/
Our service center is great. Classes, things to borrow, places to
review books and share reviews, gets "deals" for mass ordering of
databases. Check them out.
Yes, we have a District Media Center called the Instructional Materials
Center. We house the District Video & Software collection and circulate
it from here. We also do all purchase orders, receive all materials
here and make sure everything is shelf ready when it goes out to the
schools. We have 3 staff: myself as Director of all our libraries (5),
a circulation/orders clerk and a processing clerk.
I do a monthly newsletter to all staff highlighting services we offer
and new materials.
I am forwarding your question to the SPVS Division of AASL. I believe
your question is a good one that all of us should be asking. With books
coming already processed, online sources of cataloging, video production
done at the desktop, and a variety of other "district" services now
seeming to be done more at the building level, plus strained school
budgets, we're all wondering about this.
Mankato district media services still:
- facilitates district-wide information literacy and technology
curriculum writing
- does long-range planning for libraries and technology (including
PR and marketing)
- does staff development for teachers, administrators and media
specialists
- consolidates and does final processing of library book orders
(and textbooks)
- organizes bar-code distribution
- maintains the automation systems (Follet), web interfaces to
them, and multi-library search engine
- manages the library budgets
- has a video film collection it distributes
- runs a print shop for large orders
- maintains a laminator, poster maker, etc.
- does minimal video copying and editing
- and probably other stuff I've now forgotten
Of course, our department handles all the technology "stuff" in the
district, including the student information systems, WAN, e-mail, web,
etc. and coordinates the work of the building techs.
Our district has a library central office. We have 11 k-5 schools, 4
middle schools and 4 high schools and 1 alternate high school. We
compile and send orders from our Library media specialists (LMS) and
curriculum office, receive those orders plus all AV media ordered by all
K-12 teachers. We then catalog and process all media and send out to
the sites shelf ready. We have a large video/audio collection available
K-12 but primarily for the K-8 schools. (The 9-12 schools store media in
individual subject departments) We also have kits, realia ( human
skeletons, body parts models), heart monitors, video/computer
projectors, digital cameras, etc we circulate. We have a lamination
machine for K-8 teachers and an Accut machine and dies to use. We serve
as the central basic library supplies store for the k-8 LMS. We also
circulate the novel sets for the middle schools. We are automated K-12
with SIRSI. We use Workflows and Webcat. One of the central office
staff is the SIRSI tech support person for all sites. I am the program
coordinator which means I handle the budgets, set policies, plan
professional development for the LMS, visit each LMS & LMC, participate
in hiring LMS, attend administration meetings and act as the liaison
between them and the LMS. Our district has a library central office. We
have 11 k-5 schools, 4 middle schools and 4 high schools and 1 alternate
high school. We compile and send orders from our Library media
specialists (LMS) and curriculum office, receive those orders plus all
AV media ordered by all K-12 teachers. We then catalog and process all
media and send out to the sites shelf ready. We have a large
video/audio collection available K-12 but primarily for the K-8 schools.
(The 9-12 schools store media in individual subject departments) We
also have kits, realia ( human skeletons, body parts models), heart
monitors, video/computer projectors, digital cameras, etc we circulate.
We have a lamination machine for K-8 teachers and an Accut machine and
dies to use. We serve as the central basic library supplies store for
the k-8 LMS. We also circulate the novel sets for the middle schools.
We are automated K-12 with SIRSI. We use Workflows and Webcat. One of
the central office staff is the SIRSI tech support person for all sites.
I am the program coordinator which means I handle the budgets, set
policies, plan professional development for the LMS, visit each LMS &
LMC, participate in hiring LMS, attend administration meetings and act
as the liaison between them and the LMS.
Marsha Filipiak
Instructional Media & Technology Coordinator
Roseville (MN) Area Schools
651 604-3744
marsha@thefilpiaks.com
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