While I have several plaques I have been awarded throughout the years for various
honors, the things I'm the most proud of are my degrees. I have four degrees
framed from Associates to Bachelors to Masters to Specialists along with the
tassels from the last three graduations. I put these outside my office nearly 15
years ago to show them off. I'll never forget the one teacher who always made a
big deal of pointing out to her students that Mr. Pope was a "real teacher" too
because he had "went to school just like Mrs. So-An-So", etc. I was never sure if
she was trying to convince the kids or herself. Ha.... Of course, her father was
a business partner and came to some function in the library one day and wanted to
know "just what goes on in this place?" referring to the library!
I think back to one of my media professors who said something along the
lines...."sometimes if you don't toot your own horn, it doesn't get tooted!"
And in regard to those who posted about educating people about what we do...we
surely do need to do that! If someone will stop by long enough to see what all we
do! I used to have our video distribution system in my office so generally would
just turn the TV on in the morning to PBS and it would run through whatever
programming was on. No one ever came in and said, "Wow, Mr. Pope! You are really
working hard cataloging and processing that stack of new books and A-V items!"
Instead I would hear, "Are you watching Barney!" Ha... The same professor
mentioned above also said, "They don't care how things get processed and on the
shelves for circulation, they just care they are there when they need them."
Whenever I get on a soapbox to education some unknowing soul about how those
materials magically get on the shelves, their eyes glaze over, the go to their
happy place, and tune me out anyway. :)
Wishing all my library co-horts in cyberland, Peace...no matter what holiday you
celebrate!
Tony Pope
Library Media Specialist
McHenry Primary School
100 McHenry Dr.
Rome, GA 30161
pope1966@att.net
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From: Barbara Fiehn <barbara.fiehn@WKU.EDU>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Thu, December 24, 2009 12:10:33 PM
Subject: Re: Christmas slap in the face!
How many of us have our diplomas/credentials framed and displayed in our media
centers? I believe it was Harry Wong who suggested that many years ago.
Might we be missing something?
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