Re: [LM_NET] News for New Jersey Librarians

[Lisa Hunt <lisa3moon@YAHOO.COM>]

I read this to mean "in each school."  You can't really provide library-media 
services in "each" school without a degreed library media specialist.  Yes, I know 
there are many, many situation where one LMS oversees schools that have a 
paraprofessional actually in the school, however I will never say that situation 
provides "library media services."  Yes, I know we all do the best we can in any 
given situation, but the LMS is the person who actually can provide those 
services.  It's rather like saying we'll have a reading teacher to oversee all of 
the instruction in the school, but we'll only have one reading teacher for every 5 
rooms and an assistant in every room.  Bah!
I also am one of those who believe that some areas of our profession have suffered 
from a lack of public relations to remind people of the vitality that an LMS adds 
to the education experience.  The Education Machine is just too big to remember how 
cool we are unless we keep ourselves front and center.  I make my contributions 
important, and I make sure people know what I'm doing.  Sometimes I seem like a 
busy body, but it always seems that I am doing things people just love!!
Congrats to NJ! 

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



----- Original Message ----
From: Maureen Irwin <msirwin@OPTONLINE.NET>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 4:58:18 PM
Subject: Re: News for New Jersey Librarians

"All school districts shall provide library-media services that are 
connected to classroom studies in each school building, including access to 
computers, district-approved instructional software, appropriate books 
including novels, anthologies and other reference materials, and 
supplemental
materials that motivate students to read in and out of school and to conduct 
research. **Each school district shall provide these library-media services 
under the direction of a certified school library media specialist.**"

Does anyone else read this last sentence to mean that there has to be a 
certified specialist guiding the district, but not necessarily one in each 
building?

Clearly the "stuff" has to be in each building. I'm not sure sure a 
specialist has to be. I hope I'm wrong . . .

Maureen S. Irwin, Library Director
Rye Country Day School
Rye, New York 10580
msirwin@optonline.net

Any book you have not read is a new book.

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