Re: [LM_NET] school librarians working bankers hours

[LaurieButler <lbutler@SCSK12.ORG>]

Librarians donıt work ³bankers hours² they work ³teacher hours², because
that is how they are contracted and paid ­ at least in our system. A few
librarians get extended contract pay through the stateıs (now defunct)
career ladder program to work an additional 70 hours throughout the year
which pays them to open early or stay late for those 70 hours, but that is
all.  Unless systems want to hire additional staff, or pay librarians to
work longer hours and extended days, it wonıt change.  Everyone agrees that
it would be useful to open libraries extended hours, but no one wants to pay
the price:)

Laurie

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Department of Instruction, Libraries and Textbooks
Shelby County Schools
Memphis, Tennessee
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901-321-2207, Textbook Office, SCS Warehouse
lbutler@scsk12.org

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A Staten Island, New York reporter takes a look at why school libraries
close their doors to children at the end of the school day, precisely when
they need to keep their doors open so that kids can do their homework, and
of course, research for their assignments.

Like all things, its a budget matter, and in New York, a political matter.

Is it like this around the country as well?

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2007/11/bankers_hours_at_school_librar.
html


_________________________
Patricia Sarles, MA, MLS
Passages Academy Libraries
941 Rev. James A. Polite Avenue
Bronx, New York 10459
tel: (718) 861-2003
fax: (718) 861-2039
psarles@schools.nyc.gov

"Nothing of value comes without being earned, That's why great leaders are
those who lead by example first. You can't demand respect because of a title
or a position and expect people to follow. That might work for a little
while, but in the long run people respond to what they see." - Michael
Jordan 

"Libraries are not made; they grow." - Augustine Birrell

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