Re: [LM_NET] Elementary LMSs preparing for the future?

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@GMAIL.COM>]

This question is well-worth investigating at all levels.   I've
responded to it on the AASL Blog at:

http://blogs.ala.org/aasl.php


Please feel free to respond to my comments there, as well as through the list.

Thanks!

~Shonda



On 3/30/07, Floyd <calaf@charter.net> wrote:
> 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
>
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Shonda Brisco, MLIS
Library Media Specialist
Ditto Elementary School
Arlington, TX
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