Re: [LM_NET] TARGET: models for unstaffed libraries

[Kris Fallon <librarychickie@GMAIL.COM>]

I don't see how you can make a professional recommendation for this.  I know
this is not the answer you are looking for and I'm sorry to add to the
fervor but really, what sane recommendation is there to make?  It would be
just as unreasonable to say how can I run an 3rd grade classroom without a
teacher.

I think the best recommendation is to lock the door.  And leave the clean up
for when they are ready to treat it seriously.

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:41 PM, kaTe <cag02@cox.net> wrote:

> Posting this for a colleague.  Please respond to: cheryl.beran@tusd1.org
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> Hi - I am a librarian in Tucson Unified School District in Arizona. Due to
> some tough financial times and a basic lack of understanding of what
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> it is that we do, the site councils in over 70 of our 100+ schools have
> chosen to let the librarian go for next year.  Of those 70+ schools, some
> have chosen to keep an assistant at least part-time to run circulation and
> provide access to materials for the students.  But, in the other schools,
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> of our 70 elementaries, 9 of our 19 middle schools, and 5 of our 12 high
> schools, there is absolutely no one staffing the library.  Our collections
> are worth just under $25 million, with $10,665,302.89 being
> unsupervised/protected for next year.
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> What models have other districts used to protect the collections and ensure
> access to the materials to the students without the entire collection
> walking out the door?  I need to present some options to the powers that be
> next week and to the Governing Board the week after.  Any ideas out there?
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> Catalina Magnet High School
> Tucson, AZ
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> school library programs that show such direct correlations to student
> success," researcher Douglas Achterman wrote in a 2008 study of California
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Kristina Fallon, LMS
Robert Morris School, k-8
So Bound Brook, NJ
librarychickie@gmail.com
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philosopher- 55 AD - 135 AD)

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