[CALIBK12] The name library

[Barbara Wymer]

I have been following this library vs. learning center thread and I have to share my experience from 1995.  The Internet was just becoming popular, the WWW was new and computer companies were convincing administrators that they no longer needed books in a library; students could get anything they needed from the computers. My principal called me in and told me that he was shipping out all the books in the library to the public library and the library was now going to be a computer lab.  He was also going to bring in an art gallery for the art class.  Someone finally convinced him that he had to keep some books in the library.  His idea for naming this new wonderful facility?  The ABC room - Art, Books and Computers. The principal is gone and so am I but everyone agrees that the library needs to be re-remodeled.  So much for brilliant ideas!



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Barbara Wymer
LMT  Bonita Vista Middle School
650 Otay Lakes Rd.
Chula Vista, CA  91910