[ISLMA-Share] Going SOLO

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Beautifully said!




Mrs. Dawn Caveny
Librarian
St. Agnes School
217-793-1370

"Keep on, Keeping on!" Joyce Meyers

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> My advice:
>
>
> You can't do more with less (although that is what administration will
> say) - you do less with less.
>
>
> SO - you will need to triage.  Decide what is important and drop or
> reconfigure what is not.
>
>
> I'm glad you are getting the hour a day.  I hope that means you can take
> lunch without closing the library.  Do NOT SKIP YOUR LUNCH!  We tend to
> sacrifice ourselves and that is how we make impossible situations work.
> Don't do it.
>
>
> When we faced cuts we designed an impact statement.  We communicated to
> administration what was being impacted by their cuts, with rationale and
> reasons.  (They so often do NOT have a clue.)  By presenting cold hard
> facts (not complaining or whining) perhaps you can get your clerks restored
> someday soon.
>
>
> Since you have middle school students you may have to use student
> workers.  The impact = privacy concerns.  But is it more important that you
> be at the circulation desk or helping students select books in the stacks
> and/or give instruction?
>
>
> Perhaps volunteers (student, staff, community, parent) can handle
> shelving.  Impact = there will be mistakes.
>
>
> Bottom line - the library isn't going to work right.  You need to decide
> what is most important for YOU to do and other things will just be
> sacrificed.  Make it clear what is being sacrificed and why.  Communicate
> this to administration regularly in a positive, problem solving fashion.
> Can't leave the library to help with 1:1 technical problems in a
> classroom?  That's an impact.  Encourage faculty and students to
> communicate what they have lost.
>
>
> Marcia Brandt
>
> Emeritus Director of K-8 Library Media Services
>
> *Herscher CUSD#2*
>
> 501 North Main, Herscher, IL  60941
>
>
> brandtm at hcusd2.org
>
>
> Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back
> the right one.
> –Neil Gaiman
>
> Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will
> get you through times of no libraries.
> –Anne Herbert
>
> What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about
> education.
> –Harold Howe
>
>
>
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> *From:* islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info <islma-bounces at list.
> railslibraries.info> on behalf of Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 8, 2017 8:13 AM
> *To:* Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association
> *Subject:* [ISLMA-Share] Going SOLO
>
> Well Folks, it's happened to me!
>
> My district has eliminated the Media Associates starting next year.  I
> will be working in my middle school library of 750 students, alone! I will
> have help for an estimated 1 hour a day, so I am thankful for that.
>
> I wondering if any of you have gone through this transition and if you
> have any tips?
>
> I have 3 large reading programs and 2 passive reading programs and various
> activities throughout the year.  I also teach 29 (+5 on various weeks when
> I can schedule in other teachers) classes every two weeks. We are also 1:1.
>
> Any tips on programs that are more self-run?  I don't want to lose
> quality, but am having a hard time seeing how to run these programs without
> being able to check with the students on their reading.
>
> Again, this is a huge change in my world and am grateful for any help and
> advice that anyone can share!
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Amy Hamernick
> Teacher Librarian
> Century Jr. High
> @AhamernickCJH
> #CenturyWildcats
>
>
> "If we always do what we've always done,
> we will get what we've always got."
> ~Adam Urbanski~
>
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