Elementary+Librarians

Hello Library Assistants,

It was great to see all of you yesterday! I thought the training went really well and I think it's wonderful that we are being offered these opportunities for development. I've already implemented at least one new strategy I learned at the meeting and plan on investigating some of the others.

I heard Beth mention that the middle/high librarians get together every now and then and I saw the minutes of their last meeting on their Wiki page and I was really thinking that we could benefit from these same types of meeting. There are at least 5 of us that I'm aware of, myself included, who are relatively new to this position and I think it's important that we have a chance to brainstorm ideas and offer each other support. For instance, I would love to talk about strategies in collecting overdue books and fees for lost and damaged books. While this page is nice, I don't believe it can be a substitute for face to face interaction.

I would be happy to draw up an agenda and report minutes for these meetings if you all feel like it's something in which you'd like to participate. I can offer my library as our first meeting site as well. Let me know what you think so we can get planning.

Lisa @ Walker

Prior to this year, we did hold regular meetings. Last year, we were directed to no longer meet as a group. We can, however, get together as friends on our own time, just not in an official capacity. Please correct me if I am wrong about this.