Re: [LM_NET] Vent: Literacy coaches & Resources and libraries

[Lisa Hunt <lisa3moon@YAHOO.COM>]

This is an ongoing concern.  I, too, see duplication that is not necessary.  I also 
worry about syphoning of funds.  Will the library lose funds in favor of filling 
"book rooms" and classroom libraries.  I recently added the quote "It is cheaper to 
buy one book for the library and one book for every classroom."  We want students 
to have access to good literature and the books they need and want to read.  The 
library AND the librarian are the best resources for this purpose.  This week I wan 
told that materials for teachers and leveled readers will be arriving.  I will need 
to catalog these materials, and that means they become my responsibility.  However, 
the first suggestion is to catalog them and then place them in the book room.  
What?!?!?  We all know things in the book room walk away and get lost.  No, 
teachers will not come all the way to the library just to check out those items.  I 
see a difficult, convoluted mess ahead.  Thank goodness it is May, and the end of
 school is 5/31.  I'm going to be Scarlett O'Hara for now, I'll think about it next 
August.

Leslie Radloff <LESLIE.RADLOFF@SPPS.ORG> wrote:  Colleagues,

Wow! I was just in our "Book Room"-well-stocked, new titles, multiple 
copies, book character dolls, books on tape, audio books.... Here I am 
trying to bring the catalog up-to-date by weeding titles from the 30s AND 
not award winners! Don't districts see the doubling of resources, the 
lack of accounting for these things. I am so put out that libraries limp 
along on nothing when there is so much spent of books for the Book Room, 
book carts, classroom libraries. And then the Literacy Coach had the gall 
to come in and tell me the teacher don't use the library because they 
can't find things (they aren't real familiar with Dewey) and that multiple 
copies should all be removed and relocated to the Book Room. Fortunately, 
I counted to 10 and bit my tongue.

This has been one very long year!
Leslie

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Leslie Greaves Radloff
Teacher/ Librarian
Maxfield Magnet School
380 North Victoria Street
St. Paul, MN 55104
651.293.8680
leslie.radloff@spps.org

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        Lisa Hunt
  School Library Media Specialist, elementary
  National Board Certified Teacher
  Moore, OK
  lisa3moon@yahoo.com 





       
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