January 1 is just a holiday. In BOCES World, July 1 is New Year’s Day as we roll over the fiscal calendar. So the last week of June and the first weeks of July are busy, busy. Completing end of the year reports, setting up budgets and purchase orders to purchase goods and services in the new fiscal year, completing contracts and finalizing requests from schools.
Here’s a picture of the top of my desk this morning. You can see that it’s all about the paperwork! Nothing like forms in triplicate to remind you that you are just a cog in a vast and ever-moving wheel!
Still, it all needs to be done so that you can go back to concentrating on your program – which is why you took this job in the first place, right?
So it’s all paperwork all the time this week and next.
Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!
July 2, 2007Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 16, 2007
Today was the MLK holiday in mid January. We honored Dr. King this year by staying indoors by the fire and listening to the trees pop in our neighborhood. This was the view from my back window! Ice everywhere and I was happy to be home today!
My position here is a 12 month administrative position. This means that I do not work the school calendar. We have all of the national holidays off, of course but during the February break, the spring break and Christmas break we are working. While that may not sound like a good thing to you, there are certain advantages. We do, of course, accumulate a certain amount of vacation time that we can use pretty much when we want. So we can take our vacations at OUR convenience rather that at the dictates of the school calendar. If you think you might like to take some time off in, say, October, rather than trying to beat the crowds during February break, this may be the job for you. If you have little ones and need to be home when they are home – then now may not be the time for you to consider being an SLS director.
If, however, you prefer a little more flexibility AND off-peak rates, this may be for you!
MATRIX DESIGNERS
January 15, 2007
Our SLS is in the throes of an Information Fluency Curriculum design project. Many small groups of media specialists have had a hand in this project and the work can be seen growing on our website (www.crbsls.org). Now we are engaged in the design of the K-12 Matrix. Eventually we hope to take this matrix to a P-16 project. Here are the folks who have worked on the matrix thus far. The completed matrix should be posted soon.
A big part of the job is bringing people together and enabling them to do their best work. That has surely been happening with the Information Fluency Curriculum. All of us are so much smarter than any one of us! This project is ongoing! Forward!
Who are these people? (Standing L to R) Beth Davis, Mindy Holland, Clare McNally, Sonji Greenaway, Cyndi Hoffman, Steve Davidson, Lisa Correa, Liz Bailey.
Seated (L to R) Mary Ratzer, Donna Phillips, Jill McGrath.
School Library System Director – It’s not a job, it’s an adventure!
January 5, 2007
Hello!
My name is Linda Fox and I am a School Library System Director in upstate New York (Albany, to be specific).
The job of SLS director is challenging and rewarding. I love my job, but in 5 – 10 years, I will retire. The purpose of this blog is for others to get a glimpse of the details of the job, rewards and frustrations. It is my hope that a school library media specialist with lots of energy and leadership skills will be interested in taking on the challenge – when I’m ready to give it up , that is!
I will try to write frequently and include those WOW! moments as well as the mundane. My friend Stephanie Wilson says, “Work is work!”. Being an SLS director is work. No doubt about it. I look forward to your comments.
