I'm planning to have a GREAT working relationship with our IT person
next year as it will be ME. As a cost cutting measure I was told they
are doing away with the IT person at all high schools in our county and
it would be added to MY job. I will be in charge of 9 servers, over 900
computers throughout the school. Not to mention school-wide inventory.
It was chosen because 10 years ago I used to do this at another school.
When networking was just getting started! I had to teach people about
email and easy stuff like that. When I came here I was told it was not
my job to touch any of those things and to stay in the LMC and not do
any techie stuff.
The library also has textbooks AND another cost cutting measure was to
cut all aide positions in all the libraries as well. We do have two
media specialists. The second media specialist is new to our school
this year and new to our state and got engaged to a guy 5 hours
away...think she'll commute?
They do not expect library services to be hurt by this and although no
one has said, but I'm pretty sure they don't want any network problems,
computer glitches, or software screw-ups either <g> Gotta keep that
sense of humor (or am I just going mad?...I cannot decide).
lm
Lynette (LYNN) Mitchell
Library Media Specialist
Crystal River High School
1205 NE 8th Ave.
Crystal River, Florida 34428
mitchelll@citrus.k12.fl.us
352-795-4641 ext: 248
352-795-4519 FAX
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-----Original Message-----
From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Maureen Irwin
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 9:10 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Tar: IT/LMS relations
You are right about them being overworked -- and usually
underappreciated.
We have a great relationship with our IT folks. We've pretty well
established the difference in our positions: They teach navigation and
we teach seeking skills. There is much mutual appreciation between the
two depts., and in fact, the IT head put this quote up when he created a
link to the OPAC and the databases within the internal e-mail system:
Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly
knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely
underemployed.
- The Social Audit Consumer Handbook, Macmillan, 1978, p. 41 Charles
MEDAWAR
We loved it!
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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