Yes, we have discussed this in the past--I don't remember how recently.
During my summer and Christmas holidays which I spend in Austin, TX, I
always make significant book purchases at both Borders and Barnes & Noble
using an educator's discount card. Along with my educator's discount card,
I always present my school ID card. They don't care that I am a librarian
or that I work in an international school nearly ten thousand miles away
instead of a local district. They have always been very helpful, sometimes
getting boxes from the stock room for me or helping me load the purchases
into my car.
I think that the problems some of you have encountered are the result of
local management decisions. If you want to carry the issue to a higher
level, I suggest you contact B&N corporate management.
Thanks,
Mary Ellen
Mary Ellen Scribner, K-12 Librarian
Beijing BISS International School
No. 17, Area 4, An Zhen Xi Li
Chaoyang District
Beijing 100029, P. R. China
mscribner@biss.com.cn
Phone: (8610) 6443 3151/2/3 - ext. 226
FAX: (8610) 6443 3156
>From: Joni Rathbun <jrathbun@OREDNET.ORG>
>Reply-To: Joni Rathbun <jrathbun@OREDNET.ORG>
>To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>Subject: Re: GEN: another vendor issue
>Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 19:54:24 -0700
>
>On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Anne Marie Clarke wrote:
>
> > I have no problem with Barnes & Noble, because I am a member of the
>United
> > Federation of Teachers in NYC, and our title is "Teacher of Library." Do
>you
> > belong to the teacher's union, or do you have something that lists you
>as
> > part of the school faculty? I don't see how they could argue with that
> > unless they have a specific written policy excluding librarians.
> >
>
>I didn't have any luck in the archives but it seems we discussed this
>a time or two in the past. And it seems someone contacted corporate
>B&N and learned there isn't a policy against school librarians. But
>I could just be dreaming this. I seem to be doing that more and more
>these days. Maybe another old timer from the list recalls....
>
>Our district gives us employee/district identification cards.
>The cards simply state we are educators with the district. I show
>that. I've always just claimed to be a teacher... because I am one!
>
>The only problem I've ever had was at Borders. I'd chosen an Ursula
>Le Guin book. At the check-out, the young woman looked at me and
>said, "This isn't a purchase for school. This is a personal purchase."
>She said it rather rudely. I told her it was indeed a purchase for
>school, that I don't read Le Guin. She said, "No way. No school
>would ever teach this book. I went to school here and I know."
>Again, her tone was rude and arrogant.
>
>I didn't waste my time trying to discuss the issue with her logically.
>I just sat my would-be purchases down and drove across the street
>to B&N.
>
>
>
>J. Rathbun, Librarian
>Mojave High School
>Clark County School District
>Las Vegas, Nevada
>Email: jrathbun@orednet.org
>http://ccsd.net/schools/mojave/library
>
>Leave it to Beaver was not a documentary.
>
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