I wish I had gone into my school librarian position knowing how to mend those popular and cheaply-made books!\u00a0 Sure, I could build wikis, create student podcasts and collaborate to meet curriculum standards… but I didn’t know a thing about how to deal with loose pages, let along broken bindings.\u00a0 In my current job, my first school library position, I replaced a librarian who had been there for decades.\u00a0 Along with a fully-updated paper card catalogue, I inherited a mysterious drawer full of stitched, Army-green binding tape, that strange heavy-duty colored tape, and razor blades.\u00a0 It wasn’t until the very end of my fist year that I attended a professional development training with a DEMCO rep who taught us to deal with cuts, tears, falling-out pages, and demolished spines.\u00a0 By that time, my book hospital had taken over half a book case, and I’d scotch-taped my most popular “patients” in desperation to get them back out to kids.\u00a0 It would have been smart for my MLIS program to offer a one-day class about mending for folks on the school library track, since so many of us deal with budgets that need to stretch and stretch!<\/p>\n
Claire Scott
\nLibrarian, Emerson Elementary
\nBerkeley Unified School District
\nBerkeley, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I wish I had gone into my school librarian position knowing how to mend those popular and cheaply-made books!\u00a0 Sure, I could build wikis, create student podcasts and collaborate to meet curriculum standards… but I didn’t know a thing about how to deal with loose pages, let along broken bindings.\u00a0 In my current job, my first school library position, I replaced a librarian who had been there for decades.\u00a0 Along with a fully-updated paper card catalogue, I inherited a mysterious drawer full of stitched, Army-green binding tape, that strange heavy-duty colored tape, and razor blades.\u00a0 It wasn’t until the very end of my fist year that I attended a professional development training with a DEMCO rep who taught us to deal with cuts, tears, falling-out pages, and demolished spines.\u00a0 By that time, my book hospital had taken over half a book case, and I’d scotch-taped my most popular “patients” in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-wasnt-taught-in-library-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}