What would school life be like for our children without a Media Specialist?

Loss of this position would mean….

· No more new books

No one to process books for checkout.

No one to purchase books.

No one to raise money for books.

No current, contemporary fiction book titles would be ordered.

No new high interest non-fiction books would be ordered.

Current curriculum books would be unavailable for classroom use.

· Search skills would not exist.

· The catalog would be inaccurate, hence useless due to non-existent inventories.

· No product-based/multimedia research projects/lessons.

· Motivational reading programs would be gone.

· Morning News productions would disappear.

· Training on software programs like PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Photo Story and Windows Movie Maker would be unavailable.

· No more story times.

· Book talks, author visits, special programs would be discontinued.

· Accelerated Reader programs would become stagnant.

· Damaged books would go unrepaired and unable to be used.

· Classroom technology would not be used due to teacher’s lack of support (repair, troubleshooting, training on use).

· Lessons would become stale due to lack of current professional libraries.

· Videos and DVD’s would become dated and irrelevant.

· Production equipment would fall to disrepair.

· Textbooks would not be processed and tracked.

· Student obligations would spiral out of control with fines, lost, overdue books and textbooks.

· New students may have to wait months to get checkout privileges.

· Subscriptions would expire.

· Sunshine State Young Readers Award Program would be non-existent.

· Databases would become outdated.

· Software program licenses would go un-renewed.

· Training students on Web 3.0 Applications would not exist. (Podcasting, Blogging etc.)

· Teachers are unable to meet many Language Arts benchmarks in the SSS Standards specific to reference and research.

· Students would be ignorant of copyright laws.

· Students would have to navigate the internet without instruction on reliability and safety.

· Enthusiasm for reading would disappear.

· Battle of the Books competitions would not happen.

· Classrooms would lose their audio/visual support

· Library hours would be determined by clerks hours (in other words: closed for lunch, duties, sick days etc. )