From: Janis, Barbara (BJanis@presidiotrust.gov)
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 13:19:43 PDT
Message-ID: <EEE9AE8505C0D511B9DB00D0B77F523703123A22@EXCHANGE02> From: "Janis, Barbara" <BJanis@presidiotrust.gov> Subject: RE: SLA-SF: students Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:19:43 -0700
Well said, Sandy. I'd like to add that inviting a student to come by and see
the library and hear my story is kinda flattering and something I am very
open to doing.
Barbara
Barbara Janis, M.L.I.S.
Library Manager
Presidio Trust
P. O. Box 29052
San Francisco, CA 94129-0052
Phone: 415-561-5343
Fax: 415-561-5315
-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy Malloy [mailto:Sandy.Malloy@businesswire.com]
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 12:22 PM
To: SLA-SF@exploratorium.edu
Subject: Re: SLA-SF: students
Hi, Michele--
Thanks for your input, and I do agree that we should make ourselves
available without necessarily committing to the infrastructure needed to
make it a formal program.
I don't agree that we view students as dispensable--we spent more time on
that one agenda item than any other last night, as I recall!--but everyone
is stretched pretty thin these days. There are a lot of things we want to
accomplish as an organization.
The students are, after all, learning how to ferret out information and have
to learn to be proactive or they won't be successful, especially in the
corporate world. I don't think it's too much to ask of them to seek out
help, and they have their professors as well.
We can make it easier for them, of course, which is why we have an Academic
Relations function (and someone who has done a great job of it.)
Thanks, Sandy
Sandy Malloy
Senior Information Specialist, Business Wire
800/227-0845 (415/986-4422) ext. 512
sandy.malloy@businesswire.com
>>> mm@kk.org 08/27/04 11:45AM >>>
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
mm@kk.org www.kk.org
"They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man." --Michael Moore on librarians
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead
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