[LM_NET] Elementary LMSs preparing for the future?

[Floyd <calaf@CHARTER.NET>]

I have been following several of the postings here from elementary  
people who have discussed the fact that their jobs would become  
half-time next year because of budget shortfalls or an LMS who was  
taken to task by her administrator because she let students color at  
the end of a library lesson (this was a first-year person with 10  
35-minute lessons per day!!!).

I was thinking about these LMSs in context of the ACRL article which  
points out three things that need to be done for libraries to make  
their way into the "messy future".  
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/future/changingroles.htm

As a secondary LMS I had support staff, another certified LMS, and  
flexible time to reflect on and try to implement some of the issues  
discussed in the ACRL article (points that have been discussed by many  
people).

I couldn't help but wonder if elementary people, in particular, are in  
a vicious cycle of being so tied down to simply getting through the  
present that by not being able to adapt to what looks like a "messy  
future" that we are, in effect, potentially killing off library  
programs simply because of the sheer difficulty of trying to adapt in  
an educational environment that isn't giving (elementary) LMSs the  
opportunity to change.

What say ye? In what was are elementary programs adapting to the 2.0  
world and yet have a demanding teaching load every day?

floyd

Floyd Pentlin
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