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Praise for media specialists who…
Head for the Edge, Technology Connection, June 1995

Only read the newspaper in the lounge.
Don’t publish overdue lists.
Read with a pencil in hand.
Always find a book “just like the last one.”
Rescue lost computer files.
Exemplify the tenets of intellectual freedom and copyright.
Keep learning.
Give up a lunch hour to track down a reference question at another library.
Write and phone their legislators.
Lead the way in inclusive education.
Have mastered skills not yet invented when last in college.
Give you a lift when you break down on the Information Super Highway.
Remember media centers are the only place some children feel comfortable in school.
Teach you how to make “hanging indents.”
Serve on deadly dull curriculum meetings after school.
Volunteer at the public library.
Serve on new building planning committees.
Buy posters from personal funds.
Say “anything’s possible,” rather than “no.”
Don’t charge overdue fines.
Have found a way to somehow serve every teacher on staff.
Use “voices” when they read, and let children act out Three Billy Goats Gruff
Don’t agree with everything they read in professional journals.
Encourage students use the drawing and painting programs on the computer.
Have media centers open both the first and last days of school.
Don’t hesitate to confront the principal about bad policy.
Attend professional conferences, in and out of the field.
Recommend Roald Dahl and fight to keep books about ghosts and witches.
Make the world richer for nearly everyone with whom they work.

Boy, am I lucky to know and work with librarians like these!