Friday, January 12, 2007

Librarian to Media Specialist to Technology Coordinator

A few years back, the "powers that be" decided (wisely, I might add) that the term "librarian" was no longer accurate in describing the job that was done by those working in "libraries." It was decided that "media specialist" better encompassed the new technologies that were being integrated into what we now would call "media centers." I suppose this name will stick for a while, but how long until this field is simply referred to as "technology coordinators"? I am currently in a Master's program for Educational Media, and the majority of classes that I take involve computer technology rather than books. I would love to look into my crystal ball to see what a school media center will look like in 20 years, towards the end of my career! We probably couldn't even imagine some of the things that will be a part of schools at that time! Imagine the changes that have taken place in the last 20 years!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am an eInstruction consultant in South Carolina. I just wanted to point out that several of my media Specialist/clients are using CPS,with great success to teach Media Center Skills classes. One way to do that is go "Google' on Media center.ppt. Googling on .ppt finds powerpoints. Googling on Media Center .ppt will find powerpoints about media centers. Those can be "dropped into CPS" and you can add some question slides. The new CPS for Powerpoint software makes this even easier.

Also, while all the previous versions of the pads ARE blue, the versions introduced in teh summer of 2006 are white. This is primarily an aesthetic change, and the latest sofware works with all previous pads.