Re: [LM_NET] Participate in "Leave Library Journals in Staff Bathroom Day," 5/ 5.

["Brisco, Shonda" <briscos@TRINITYVALLEYSCHOOL.ORG>]

Then "let's pray" that someone on our faculty picks up a library journal
left in the restroom and reads something POSTIVE about libraries /
librarians on May 5th....which is also 

"Cinco de Mayo!"

Celebrating early in Texas....yours in guacamole, 

~Shonda Brisco
Trinity Valley MS / US Librarian
Fort Worth, TX
briscos@trinityvalleyschool.org
 

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From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Angela Wilcox
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 2:38 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] Participate in "Leave Library Journals in Staff
Bathroom Day," 5/ 5.

Since May 5th has already been designate the National Day of Prayer
(http://www.nationaldayofprayer.org/), this might make for some
confusion in the faculty restrooms.  But then again, I am sure that
there are many multi-taskers out there who could handle the challenge.

Submitted with good humor,

Angela Wilcox  MS
IEJ Elementary School
Laurinburg, NC


On Mon, 2 May 2005 13:36:08 -0400
 "Hastings, Jeff" <hastingj@HOWELLSCHOOLS.COM> wrote:
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> In order to cultivate a richer understanding of The school library 
> media profession among classroom teachers and administrators, school 
> library media specialists everywhere are being called upon to take 
> part in the first annual worldwide "Leave Your Library Journals in the

> Staff Bathroom Day" on Thursday, May 5, 2005.
>
> School librarians, due to their unique position in the typical school 
> setting, are among the most misunderstood professionals 
> anywhere--inside or outside of the education realm. That lack of 
> understanding can take its toll on professional morale, causing school

> librarians to feel disconnected, undervalued, and marginalized in the 
> workplace. Moreover, when potential teaching collaborators fail to 
> understand the modern School Librarian's training, backgrounds and 
> stake in the overall educational process, teaching opportunities are 
> needlessly lost. Ultimately, especially during hard financial times, 
> undervalued professionals can be the first to lose their jobs to 
> staffing cuts--all because those with whom they teach never quite 
> "got" what they were all about...
>
> Worldwide "Leave Library Journals in the Staff Bathroom Day" (LLJSBT) 
> can help prevent those negative scenarios by helping school librarians

> everywhere reintroduce their teaching peers and administrators to the 
> mission of school librarianship. Unlike other forms of professional 
> proactivity, LLSBT is never "nudgy." Instead of attempting to loudly 
> self-advocate by overtly grabbing the spotlight and a
> bullhorn-- which would
> merely breed resentment-- LLJSBT is an event that works by employing 
> stealth and subtlety; tapping the latent curiosities of, and providing

> an illuminating diversion for, a target audience which is, in fact, 
> already held captive by mother nature herself. Indeed, during such 
> sessions, your colleagues, coworkers and supervisors may never realize

> that they're learning to better understand the increasingly important 
> role of school library media specialists in education, but you'll find

> that they'll be grateful, nonetheless, to be able to conveniently grab

> n'graze back issues of "Library Media Connection," "Teacher 
> Librarian,"
> "School Library
> Journal," and your other professional favorites. Everyone appreciates 
> something to read when they're in a pinch.
>
> To participate in LLSBT, simply leave a stack of your old professional

> Journals in your school's staff bathroom(s)on Thursday, May 5th. If 
> your school has single-sex facilities, you may need to ask an 
> empathetic coworker of the opposite sex to place half of the journals.

> Should reading material already exist in your staff lavatories, be 
> sure to remove that material.
> once the journals are in place, just sit back, relax and reap the 
> rewards as your begin to feel your professional esteem-o-meter begin 
> to climb.
>
>
>
>   Jeffrey Hastings,
>   School Library Media Specialist
>   Highlander Way Middle School
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  http://www.howellschools.com/~hwmedia/content/library.html
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