The funny thing is - way back in the late '70's ( wow, I know I am getting
old) - when I was taking one of my early classes toward my bachelor's, I had
a class called Media Tech. It was a required class, no less, that covered:
how to use, clean and troubleshoot a lot of the equipment we were using. Of
course, at the time this consisted of, opaque projector, overhead
projector, slide projector, tape recorder, slide maker (a camera on a rigid
tripod arrangement that took a picture of whatever you wanted the slide to
be using slide film, which after developing, had to be mounted in slide
cases), lettering machine. We had projects using each of the machines, had
to demonstrate that we knew how to use it and clean it, had to make cards
listing how to use it and on the other side how to clean it.
When we got computers at our school, because I had them at home, I became
the computer tech - and had to set them up, tear them down, clean, etc.
Then I taught a number of my fellow college classmates how to do it.
So, at one time they did teach a lot of stuff in college that they don't do
now.
Toni Koontz
Librarian
St. Charles Preparatory School
Columbus, Ohio
akoontz@cdeducation.org
Carpe Diem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Hunt" <lisa3moon@YAHOO.COM>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: Response to Vent: Teacher Joke
>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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> School Library Media Specialist
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