Yesterday, I went and spent the day at Cowan Road Middle School with their Media Specialist. Like the other media centers in the county, paraprofessionals will not be kept in position for next year. Unfortunately (although understandably), they are looking for jobs and taking them when they become available. So, the SLMS there has no parapro. She's been without for about a month now.
While there, I helped process books to get on the shelves (adding location stickers, Lexile stickers, clear cover stickers, stamping insides with school names and bar code number) and spent some time helping with Destiny Quest. This media center has only held SLMS for about 2 years at any time...cataloging in Destiny has not been consistent. She showed me how to change the label and re-save them in Destiny. I kind of wondered why it really mattered if you still knew where the item was. She explained that TitleWave (and other similar companies) have a program where you can upload the school's titles and it will help you match what you need...with all the different coding, these programs were ineffective.
I found that there were similarities and differences between the middle and elementary school media centers...but I now know that I would also enjoy a middle school media center!
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