<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This would really bother me. Absolutely you should say something. If you are not her supervisor, I'd discuss this with the person who has that responsibility. Let the supervisor know that this has to stop and ask them for recommendations for handling this. If you can have the discussion directly with this person, let her know the seriousness of the issue and tell her bluntly to stop. I would have a conversation with my supervisor no matter what. It's an opportune moment to educate them and to garner support. You might consider a newsletter that would spell out the staffing issue in an offhand but clear way.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Sherry Jo Baehr<br><font size="1">Head Librarian @ Niles West High School</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><b>I'm reading...     I'm listening to...</b></font></div><div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23197837-the-belles" target="_blank"><img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1492784901l/23197837.jpg" alt="Image result for the belles book" style="font-size:12.8px" width="63" height="96"></a>    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60932.Parable_of_the_Talents" target="_blank"><img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320459433l/13009405.jpg" alt="Image result for parable of the talents book" width="63" height="96"></a><font size="1"><br></font><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:05 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:islma@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">islma@list.railslibraries.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Responding to an old thread...</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">My position is .9 Library Media Specialist at our high school and .1 at our two elementary schools which means I am at each elementary school for about 1.5 hours each week! Crazy, I know! My duties at the elementary schools are basically collection management, maintaining the website, and sending instructional/how to videos to students and teachers as I am not scheduled enough time in each building to actually meet with classes.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">We have three "building paras" that are assigned 5 hours each in the library per week to check books in/out, shelve books, repair books, add new copies to the catalog and any other projects I may have for them including helping with weeding and inventories. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Their technical name on paper is "building para" since they are assigned other jobs throughout the building including lunchroom duty, bus duty, computer lab help and science kit inventory. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">My issues is we have a new building para that started last year that is continually calling herself the school librarian to teachers, parents and community members. This does not sit well with me since she does not have a MLIS and is not well versed in what the job of a librarian actually entails which is partly my fault. Also, I have been avidly working to get a library media specialist hired to take over the elementary buildings so if our community and teachers think we have a librarian there already, I am afraid they will not see the need to get someone hired for the full-time professional position. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,3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