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Hi,

I just wanted you to know that I am a School Library Media Specialist that
deals ONLY with AV and no books (dust, mold, torn pages, water, etc); no
periodicals (same as above + scrunched in the bottom of lockers). I am the
Director of a HS Library Media Center and have a Library Media Specialist
that I serve with, plus a clerk and a secretary. Yeah, maybe I do have it
good, but I worked to keep them for the last 28 years. And yeah, the three
of them handle the library and I only do AV. And yeah, it works!  

Each of us is good at what we do and if we HAD to learn to do each other job
we could do it. But this "venting" leaves a lot to be desired and tells the
new library students something that just isn't right.

Since when do department chairs have the Media(not AV) training that you
have.  Dropping this in their lap won't make you any friends there either.
Perhaps what you should have done was an in-service to teach everyone what
to do in common situations.

Peter

 
Peter Salesses
LMC Director
E.O. Smith HS
Storrs, CT 06268
Psalesses@eosmith.org
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Date:    Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:48:15 -0700 
From:    "The librarian lady ;-)" <daichan@SHAW.CA> 
Subject: Re: Vent - Teachers and AV 

OMG - I hate AV.  We took over the textbook circulation for the school a 
number of years ago and shortly after that I went to the principal and said
Textbooks or AV - can't do both and still run the library."  All the AV was
then passed off to each department.  Six years later I still get panicked
phone calls from teachers when their VCRs, DVDs, video cameras don't work or
when the overhead has packed it in or when they need a CD player and can't
find one.  I, with a silent thank you to a very understanding principal,
remind them that I am no longer responsible for AV and tell them to contact
their department chair.  

Diane Gallagher-Hayashi
Teacher-librarian
Stelly's School 
SD63 (Saanich) 
Saanichton, B.C. 
Canada 
Diane_Hayashi@sd63.bc.ca 
daichan@shaw.ca

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