Re: [LM_NET] Response to Vent: Teacher Joke

[Lisa Hunt <lisa3moon@YAHOO.COM>]

I was still in "teacher school" with plans to go to library school when I spent 
some practicum time with a local library media specialist.  I followed her like a 
puppy and asked a million questions.  One day she opened a computer CPU to change a 
battery, and I asked her "What class do they teach this stuff in at library 
school?"  She replied, "Honey, this and so much more is just OJT.  I learned by 
opening the thing up and giving it a try.  You can learn alot by doing."  Then, she 
laughed and said that you go to college to get the "paper" but you work in a school 
library to learn to become a media specialist.  Now, I tell all the newbies, "Give 
yourself 3 years in your space to become an LMS.  Be patient and make mistakes, 
because it is good learning."
   
  No, they don't teach everything in school.

KIMBERLY KOVACH <KIMBERLY.KOVACH@UCPS.K12.NC.US> wrote:
  In response to Vent: Teacher Joke: Over Spring Break, my father-in-law asked me 
why I needed a Master's Degree to "sit around and check out books". I let my 
husband answer that one because the steam was coming out of my ears and I didn't 
want to say anything I'd regret. I also enlightened him later that day, when I was 
a little less worked up. Yes, Virginia, there IS a difference between being a 
circulation desk clerk at a public library and being the one-and-only media 
coordinator in a school. 

That being said, I am currently working on earning my MLIS and there is a pretty 
big disconnect between some of my coursework and what I actually do all day in the 
media center. As I often mutter to my assistant when some piece of equipment breaks 
down and I am called to fix it, or we are asked to do some random thing by a 
teacher or my principal, "They don't teach this in library school."

Kimberly Kovach
Librarian/Media Coordinator
East Union Middle School
Union County Public Schools
704-624-2114
kimberly.kovach@ucps.k12.nc.us 

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        Lisa Hunt, NBCT 2005
  School Library Media Specialist
  Apple Creek Elementary
  Moore, OK
  lisa3moon@yahoo.com 





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