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The Name Game: What's in a Name?
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Purcell, Melissa – Library Media Connection, 2010
Due to a recent American Association of School Librarians (AASL) survey that indicated confusion, misperceptions, and inconsistencies about various job titles in the school librarian profession, the organization's leadership chose to officially adopt for the profession the title school librarian. They did this after carefully reviewing the data…
Descriptors: Library Administration, School Libraries, Educational Technology, Media Specialists
Whose Voices Are Most Powerful?
Doug, Johnson – Library Media Connection, 2004
Johnson Doug, a representative of the state library association decided to speak to the board members of the Left Overshoe Independent Schools when they threatened to implement a budgetary cut for the library school program. The local parents and teachers should testify to the board the advantages of a library program and raise voice against…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Professional Associations, Library Services, Library Administration
Fixed vs. Flexible Scheduling in School Library Media Centers: A Continuing Debate
Hurley, Christine A. – Library Media Connection, 2004
Flexible scheduling of school library media is accepted notion in major library school associations and the classes meet in the library media center based on instructional and curricular need instead of fixed scheduling of school library in which classes have specified library times each week. The controversy regarding fixed and flexible school…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Library Services, Library Schools, School Libraries
When Your Job Is on the Line: Strategies for Assisting Library Media Specialists Whose Positions Are in Jeopardy
Johnson, Doug – Library Media Connection, 2005
The strategies to be followed by a Library Media Specialist when his or her position is reduced due to budget reductions or reorganizations in the school district are discussed. The strategies include, learning the timeline for district budget adjustment project, distribution and discussion of library advocacy information with building…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Media Specialists, Library Administration, School Restructuring
The Synergistic Attributes of Library Media Center Standards
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Misakian, Jo Ellen Priest – Library Media Connection, 2006
Designing curricula around the standards, with clearly delineated strategies, expectations, and evaluative procedures, is thought to assure that growth in student achievement may be tracked. While this process can sometimes be nebulous, one thing is certain: clearly understanding what is involved in reaching a degree of excellence and determining…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Administration, State Standards, Information Literacy
Leverage Your Library Program: What an Administrator Needs to Know
Church, Audrey P. – Library Media Connection, 2004
A library media specialist should be involved in understanding the curriculum and the content area standards in the school, school district and the state, which would help the library media specialists to assist in planning, collaboratively teaching and co-evaluating with the classroom teachers. The library media program can become an integral…
Descriptors: Media Specialists, Library Services, Information Literacy, School Libraries