[Publib] Re: Teacher Loan Cards

[Linda Cannon]

 I realize that netiquette frowns on "me, too's" but. . .

AMEN!


Linda Cannon
Collection Development Librarian
Joplin Public Library
 

-----Original Message-----
From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Lynn Schofield-Dahl
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:17 PM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Publib] Re: Teacher Loan Cards

Ok...so I'm going to stick my neck out hre and risk getting it chopped
at....but this is a forum for the exchange of ideas, right?

I've struggled with this issue on a philosophic level for years.  Do we
offer special loan periods for Doctors and Police Officers or other
professionals?  Why does a person's job-choice grant him/her special
rights?  Will those teachers give a child better grades only because
that child has a parent who is a librarian?  I  have trouble bowing down
to the cry of "But I am a teacher".   Why should that grant the person
extra check-out time, or freedom from fines or any of the other
"specials" they want?  I'm a librarian, and like teachers am underpaid
and overworked, but still I fight for patron's right to privacy and
right to information and for literacy and the American way, but no one
gives me a break on my taxes or a break on student fees.

I can't believe I'm the only one who has pondered this.

By the way, the views I am expressing on this subject are mine and do
not necessarily reflect the policy that my Board has passed and that I
support in the course of my work.

S. Lynn Schofield-Dahl
Director, Matheson Memorial Library, Elkhorn, WI

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