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In order to cultivate a richer understanding of The school library media
profession among classroom teachers and administrators, school library media
specialists everywhere are being called upon to take part in the first
annual worldwide "Leave Your Library Journals in the Staff Bathroom Day" on
Thursday, May 5, 2005.
School librarians, due to their unique position in the typical school
setting, are among the most misunderstood professionals anywhere--inside or
outside of the education realm. That lack of understanding can take its toll
on professional morale, causing school librarians to feel disconnected,
undervalued, and marginalized in the workplace. Moreover, when potential
teaching collaborators fail to understand the modern School Librarian's
training, backgrounds and stake in the overall educational process, teaching
opportunities are needlessly lost. Ultimately, especially during hard
financial times, undervalued professionals can be the first to lose their
jobs to staffing cuts--all because those with whom they teach never quite
"got" what they were all about...
Worldwide "Leave Library Journals in the Staff Bathroom Day" (LLJSBT) can
help prevent those negative scenarios by helping school librarians
everywhere reintroduce their teaching peers and administrators to the
mission of school librarianship. Unlike other forms of professional
proactivity, LLSBT is never "nudgy." Instead of attempting to loudly
self-advocate by overtly grabbing the spotlight and a bullhorn-- which would
merely breed resentment-- LLJSBT is an event that works by employing stealth
and subtlety; tapping the latent curiosities of, and providing an
illuminating diversion for, a target audience which is, in fact, already
held captive by mother nature herself. Indeed, during such sessions, your
colleagues, coworkers and supervisors may never realize that they're
learning to better understand the increasingly important role of school
library media specialists in education, but you'll find that they'll be
grateful, nonetheless, to be able to conveniently grab n'graze back issues
of "Library Media Connection," "Teacher Librarian," "School Library
Journal," and your other professional favorites. Everyone appreciates
something to read when they're in a pinch.
To participate in LLSBT, simply leave a stack of your old professional
Journals in your school's staff bathroom(s)on Thursday, May 5th. If your
school has single-sex facilities, you may need to ask an empathetic coworker
of the opposite sex to place half of the journals. Should reading material
already exist in your staff lavatories, be sure to remove that material.
once the journals are in place, just sit back, relax and reap the rewards as
your begin to feel your professional esteem-o-meter begin to climb.
Jeffrey Hastings,
School Library Media Specialist
Highlander Way Middle School
http://www.howellschools.com/~hwmedia/content/library.html
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