Re: [LM_NET] Librarian Image & Lost Postitions

[Lisa Hunt <lisa3moon@YAHOO.COM>]

Nicole, you may be finishing your first LMS year, but you know just who and what we 
are.  You are exactly right when you say administrators don't need to hire those 
other specialists when they already have one.  It is a constant work in progress to 
help them know what we can do for them and the students.  Keep preaching and even 
when it is preaching to the choir there will always be one more new person brought 
to a better understanding of us.

Nicole Meintz <MeinN@COLDWATER.K12.MI.US> wrote:  Hi all-
Speaking to presenting at administrator's conferences, I'm wondering how these 
presentations were titled. If I presented something, I would probably title it 
heavy on the end that would attract admin to the presentation. Something like 
"Improving Standardized Test Scores" or the like. Go light on mentioning the media 
center in the title, but use a hook for getting them in the door. Test scores and 
money I bet would bring them in droves.

The problem is that a lot of admin already think they know what is going on in the 
media center when they haven't a clue. I know of many media specialists (myself 
included) who are not being used to our full potential. So I wouldn't go into the 
presentation quoting a bunch of numbers right off the bat, but showing them exactly 
how a highly qualified media specialist can have a positive impact on the school 
environment, not just through running the media center, but as a collaborator, a 
media/technology specialist, a teacher, and so forth. How they don't need to hire 
literacy coaches, technology coaches, or technology integration specialists, 
because they already have them, and that's us! 

I know I haven't been around long (this is my first year), and everything I've 
written may have already been done. If that's the case, I apologize. However, I 
thought it would be worth throwing it out there. 

Thanks for listening. :)


Nicole Meintz, Library Media Specialist
Legg Middle School
Coldwater, MI
meinn@coldwater.k12.mi.us

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        Lisa Hunt
  School Library Media Specialist, elementary
  National Board Certified Teacher
  Moore, OK
  lisa3moon@yahoo.com 





       
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