From: Michele McGinnis (mm@kk.org)
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 11:45:41 PDT
Message-Id: <a0611042dbd552dec6bb8@[192.168.0.2]> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:45:41 -0700 From: Michele McGinnis <mm@kk.org> Subject: students
Hey Ya'll,
After last nights meeting, I'm wondering how important students are
to this organization - both with their current status as students and
as future professional members who can bring their skills and energy
to the organization? I get the sense that they are fairly
dispensable, and that is disturbing. I'd like to have more dialog on
where they fit in our organization.
I'm glad we agreed to reduce the cost of their attendance because I
know as a student, I would have been unable to afford $20 for a
meeting. Hell, I shudder now at having to pay $30.
A student mentoring program requires time and infrastructure to be
done successfully. I understand the reluctance of SF-SLA taking this
on and I am in agreement. But we fool ourselves if we think that the
few students who can afford to come to our meetings can get the same
quality benefits from that experience as they could from a formal
mentoring program.
As Dunn replies to SJSU that we can't currently take this on, I'd
like to see her encourage the school to consider taking it on and
offering our membership as a willing group from which to recruit
mentors.
thanks, m
-- Michele McGinnis, MSIS Research Librarian to Kevin Kelly149 Amapola Pacifica, CA 94044 650-355-7676 650-359-9701 fax
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