Maybe I am one of those "Australian rednecks" that comedian Robin Williams
spoke about on someone's late -night show last week, but I would refuse to
provide any sort of model. I can't see that that is in any way your
responsibility.
Let those who made the decision figure out the solution, because that is the
only way they are going to learn, understand and value the importance of
qualified staffing.
The library I used to work in is going the way of the one that Lisa
described -brand new when the school was built in 1996, recognised as best
practice till 2006 and steadily declining with only a clerical assistant
there for 50% of the time. The irony is that when it was at its peak the
school picked up a national $10 000 award for its literacy program; now the
school is not making the national average in literacy in national tests for
Years 3 and 5.
What these short-sighted administrators need to understand is that libraries
are not all about the collection that the building houses - they are about
the services offered by the people who hold the keys to unlocking the
collection.. A book or DVD or whatever is an inanimate object with very
little value beyond the cost of its construction - it is only given value
when someone with the skills to use it effectively and efficiently chooses
to do so.
Let your administrators work that out through having to solve the problem
THEY have made for themselves by themselves.
Barbara
Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
COOMA NSW 2630
E.barbara.288@bigpond.com
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