[CALIBK12] Library cuts and conference

Thu Mar 5 21:38:17 PST 2009

I highly recommend getting involved with the union as well as regularly attending board meetings.  I have been our union's treasurer for almost 8 years and attend board meetings.  There are no guarantees as my position is on the list of proposed budget cuts in our district, but I am not invisible (or silent) to the union or the board, so there is hope.  
Susan Abair
District Librarian 
Dinuba Unified

--- On Thu, 3/5/09, Blanche Woolls <bwoolls at slis.sjsu.edu> wrote:

From: Blanche Woolls <bwoolls at slis.sjsu.edu>
Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] Library cuts and conference
To: "Ehret-Straesser, Judith" <jehret at srcs.k12.ca.us>
Cc: "calibk12 at lists.sjsu.edu" <calibk12 at lists.sjsu.edu>
Date: Thursday, March 5, 2009, 9:13 AM

CSLA needs to give a big blue ribbon to each teacher librarian who is on 
the negotiating committee for the union because they must give their time 
and effort to keeping the union informed as you have done where you are. 
This is not easy. One has to be chosen to be there, must go to the 
meetings and keep a high profile. It's a case of doing it rather than 
expecting someone else to take the reins.

Hopefully, if our library techs are in a separate union, they are also 
directly involved in their union negotations and a blue ribbon for them, 
too.

Things do work! Thank you for sharing the success story.

Blanche

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Ehret-Straesser, Judith wrote:

> What that board member said is true. It was in my school district as well.
The LMT's were consistently being sacrificed to save class size and teaching
positions and pay raises. Some of us became building reps and constantly
reminded union officers that they represent all the certificated staff --
counselors and LMTs and psychologists -- and not just classroom teachers. And we
worked to support classroom teacher issues as well counselors and psychologists
and home school teachers, etc. So it was gratifying last night when the union
executive board told the school board that they did not want library staff cut,
and the audience of teachers applauded that statement.
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> From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On
Behalf Of Headley Vicki [headley_vicki at cupertino.k12.ca.us]
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> Want to hear something even worse?  I was talking to a board member (of
another district) and she said the board use to push all the time for
librarians, but the teachers were the biggest complainers about funding them. 
It?s that parochial thinking that keeps teacher librarians out of the loop.
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"support" instead of "services". Thanks, Barbara.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could create another credential "TS"?
One of my personal campaigns is to convince our teacher training personnel that
they need to emphasize collaboration with the librarian when they work with
their new teachers. Why were we required to take at least one class in the
Education department to get our Librarian Credential, as well as already
possessing the Teaching credential before we were accepted in library school;
and yet teachers don't have to do anything in the school of Library Science?
In fact, I have had many teachers tell me they didn't even use the library
at all when they were working on their credentials. Hmmmmmm!
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