Job+and+Department+Justification

This page is for us to create a justification for our jobs and our department. Please add to/delete/or edit as you all see fit.

I'll start it off by giving my reasons why we can't be replaced by the public library: 1. The public library does not cater to our age and reading-level specific population. 2. The public library does not consider school curriculum first when they select and purchase materials. 3. The public library does not provide systematic instruction in information literacy skills. 4. Many of our students do not visit the public library on a regular basis.

The importance of shared resources: We have our finger on the curricular pulse of the building and we operate with a big picture in mind when we purchase shared resources for our schools. We have the means to be administrators of the shared resources in our buildings and our district. We have now added technology peripherals to our catalogs. At JG, we also house a lot of science, social studies, and health kits. We will be adding guided reading materials (in some form or other) in the near future. When you are called upon to oversee these things you do need room in your schedule to complete that task. Just because we are not always directly involved in face-to-face instruction, what we do has a direct impact on student learning because of how we help teachers.