LISNews: Librarian News

This does not surprise me about Humble. I have worked with them for over three years providing profession moving service, under thier Bond renovation program. I have worked with several large school districts but have never had the cooperation issues i have had with Humble and Kingwood High. My first experience is that they should hire a move consultant or project manager to work with construction
and the move team. Thier building facilities person is not qualified for that larg scale move. and to keep projective figures and change orders on track. When addition capital was spent it was due to the lack of planning by principles and building facility personel.

Here is a link to a list of studies that show the importance of school library media specialists and their role in student success. If I were you, I would share these with everyone you can in Texas. Good luck!

http://www.acrl.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/resourceguides/studentachievement.cfm

I work in a very volatile manufacturing industry. I know we may be different from a school, but one thing my company finally figured out was that across the board cuts (i.e. of entire departments) is a bad mistake. If you have to trim budgets, fine, but lay off based on seniority, or cull positions from several places. This article is pretty depressing, but I can't say I'm that surprised. Librarians are the first ones to go, usually. It's really sad. :(