[CALIBK12] Administrators meeting

[Blanche Woolls]

Hi Darla,

Your administrator may be absorbing more than you think. If the 
administrator doesn't go to sleep, you are home free. However, next year, 
why not have the meeting in the library and have some concrete things to 
display, not obviously, but things to catch the eye so that you could 
demonstrate as well as talk about figures on paper.

That would allow you to have cookies and coffee, always a good addition to 
any meeting.

Blanche

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Magana. Darla wrote:

> 
> Hi collective,
> 
> Some wise library science professor encouraged me to make sure that every year I make
> an appointment with my administrator to go over the work and goals of the Library
> Program.  Each year I have faithfully arranged a meeting, provided data, shared goals,
> and solicited feedback from my administrator(s).  Each year, the administrator listens
> politely, eyeballs the data, nods their head encouragingly, and responds with a ?keep
> up the good work?.    Consequently, each year I say to myself, ?next year I?m going to
> send an email that says ?all is good in libraryland? and save myself the time. 
> 
>  
> 
> I realize that part of my job is educating my administrator to the role of the library
> and keeping my administrator ?in the know?.  This annual meeting serves this end.  But
> I wish that, I don?t know, my leader would offer a little ?leadership?.    Am I asking
> too much? 
> 
>  
> 
> Any tips on how to engage an administrator in a DIALOG about how the school library
> fits into their total school picture of teaching and learning?  I?ll post a hit.
> 
>  
> 
> Darla Magana
> 
> St. Margaret?s Episcopal School
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