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Media Survey - Media Specialists 2000/2001 Please circle the letter which best answers the questions below. 1. How would you rate the cataloging of AV items? a. excellent job (17) b. OK (9) c. poor (1)   2. How would you rate the cataloging and processing of books? a. excellent job (24) b. OK (10) c. poor (1) Comment regarding cataloging - Book cataloging slow - need more people very few mistakes good job Additional comments by the person who thought cataloging of books and AV was poor were; You should be able to attach to records with different ISBN's. Keyword searches are difficult. Some database cleanup needs to be done. There should be a separate section for picture books instead of including them with Easy. **These comments do not relate to the quality of cataloging only to revisions that the media specialist would like to have made to the system.     3. Has the media supervisor been helpful when you asked for assistance? a. yes (35), b. no (0) Comments; Nancy is always available, helpful and encouraging. She always has a positive and supportive attitude. I enjoy working with her. Always! (3) Needs no improvement. Good job, accessible Nancy - You're doing a great job, always helpful, so is Barb. Thanks for online support! Thanks for all your help. Always helpful and supportive. I appreciate it. Always helpful - prompt replies to e-mail - excellent. Thank you! Always responds in a very timely manner. Always gets back to me ASAP. Needs to be more proactive in finding solutions. Every question or problem has been efficiently resolved. I especially appreciate not having to keep checking back on loose ends. Nancy has streamlined many of our procedures. Nancy is very willing to help and assist and she responds in a timely manner. Nancy has not only been helpful but also very prompt in resolving all issues. Always responds to questions promptly - good job! You're doing a great job, Nancy! Mrs. Case will answer her phone or call you back. If she doesn't know an answer she will find out for you. Very prompt. Very helpful and always responds in a timely fashion. Great job! Thanks for the "warm fuzzies"!   4. Have you used the new online handbook this year? a. yes (28) b. no (5) Comments and suggestions - Thanks, just need time to use it. Doesn't need improvement. I found it easy to use. It's great! Perhaps add some more links to good sites on the web. It has been an asset to me all year. I want a hard copy. It's very helpful the way it is. Not user friendly. Add a link to grants and areas to increase monies and equipment as well as tips from others. This can be done. Why isn't media a link on the home page for SBAC? There is a link under Departments. A subject index of web sites would be good. It seems user friendly. I found it easy to use. Label the book at the bottom so people will know it is a link. The Dynix Handbook and the Media Specialist Handbook are only for media specialists so not labeling the link is a way to make it mostly accessible only to those who need to see these documents. Add the av search to the catalog. You cannot combine Dynix and the website. Under weeding - disposal of obsolete/surplus library materials it tells you to follow the procedures outlined on page t-4. Where are the procedures? This has been fixed. Some of the Dynix directions don't exactly match some of my screens at times. Not a major problem though. Let me know where the problem is and I will fix it.   5. Rate the service you have received this year from the following jobbers. Baker and Taylor - a. pretty good (13), b. usually OK (16), c. poor (7) Barnes and Noble - a.pretty good (9), b. usually OK (4), c. poor (0) Books a Million - a. pretty good (8), b. usually OK (4), c. poor (7) Southeast Library Bindery - a. pretty good (6), b. usually OK (5), c. poor (0) Comments; I'd like to use Permabound. I have requested that Wayne Hackett add a prebound paperback company to our bid list for the coming year. Hopefully that will happen. Any chance for getting Follett? - They are more geared towards k-12 schools and offer great services and book fill rates on orders. Baker and Taylor has a poor fill rate. No matter how many times I call Baker and Taylor to complain about placement of barcodes, thy still come in the middle of the cover; also they really have a low fill rate. We need to have more freedom to purchase books beyond B&T. Their fill rate and slowness makes it difficult/impossible to respond to reachers and students immediate needs. Baker and Taylor offers poor service, incorrect information, doesn't have the materials I want, poor web site design makes ordering difficult. Bindery was very good. Books-a- Million - Nobody know what's going on there. It is frustrating placing an order (with Baker and Taylor) and waiting and waiting and then having things on backorder and others out of stock. Southeast bindery - The binding on the larger (wider) books' spine gaps.   6. What inservice opportunities would you like for next year? (Please be specific as to what you would like to have inservices on). Inservices requested - Storytelling Puppet workshop Ellison Letterpress or Accucut workshop Media only computer trouble shooting (2) Computers Web page design (3) Develop a module for technology research curriculum for students. Research orientation using new technology. Editing news Digital cameras (2) Dig. cam. for news (1) AR (2) Powerpoint Desk top publishing Office 2000 How to work with teachers so the media classes fit into the classroom curriculum Best ideas from media specialists (2) FAME Media Promotion Infotrac (2) Curriculum oriented software especially for ss and sci (reasonably priced) Internet management for instruction - Managing bookmarks - software to take sites so they can be emulated off-line. Advanced Adobe Photoshop Networking Dynix refresher (2) Hooking up and using video projectors to computers, laptops or VRC's Digital video writing my own catalog entry What to do with the inventory reports.   7. Is there anything you would like the media supervisor to do for you that is not now being done? You are doing great! Work on getting an extra aide for elementary schools Get us a big raise Future of media centers - as far as technology and education, how we fit in and what we should be emphasizing for the future. Better public relations for administrative support. Visit schools more often, send all memos, materials, etc. to each media specialist if there is more than one at a school. As of 4/17/01 the Media Supervisor has made 95 school visits. More time visiting would mean that AV cataloging would slow down dramatically since the supervisor does this. Currently we have a good turnaround time for AV. I'd like to keep it that way. Wash my car You are doing a GREAT job!!!! Always positive, I love your statement that our job is not "guarding the books". Would like you to recommend that the library be closed during inventory or at least cancel scheduled classes. Different media centers have different circumstances, staffing patterns and work loads, so what works best for one school would not necessarily be the best thing for another. Would like you to recommend that all schools with over 800 students have 1 1/2 media specialists or 2 full time aides and 1 media specialist.   I will certainly recommend this in the yearly meeting with the superintendant. Make whatever modifications are necessary to all us to purchase from Permabound or Econoclad.   I have made a request that a prebound company be added to the county bid list. No complaints or problems with anyone at media services. Get out of the Baker and Taylor contract. If they had a 15 million dollar judgment against them, their contract should be null and void. June 30, 2002 their contract will be up and the county will evaluate their past performance to determine if they or another company will be the primary jobber. Let us order from Follett, Permabound and Rourke. Keep on representing our points of view to the county office. You are a trooper! I would like pockets glued in my books in technical services. More regular MediAlerts   8. Is there anything you would like us to order, either for the professional library or for the film library? Anansi the spider on video format like the one that was on film. We already have this on video. Any new Weston Woods videos. More class sets of high school books (ex. lower lever of Romeo and Juliet) Marci Buchannan does this, not Media Resources. Please order videos of Caldecotts each year. 5th gr. videos on civil war, wwI, wwII, continent studies for 3rd grade An additional copy of how to de-junk your life. video - Nightmare on drug street (69.95) Lincoln has it. More chess videos. Call it courage - Disney Martha Ann and the Mother store More science videos for middle school Requested items will be ordered.   9. Did you receive adequate instructions and assistance with problems when you did your last inventory? a. Yes (37) b. No (0)   10. Additional comments on other issues. Need high tech support person in every media center. Best department in the county! Please add a section to evaluate the director of media services. That would have to come from Jim. If he requests it I can add an evaluation of the director. Thank you for all you do. I think everyone does a fine job - often under less than adequate conditions. I especially appreciate everyone's flexibility. Kudos to booking for always handling my requests or blunders in a friendly professional manner. Andy has been very helpful with our TV/VCR situation. Uma is always a blessing. TV workshops were great! Some support should be given to media specialists who also volunteer to be tech reps. While it is voluntary is affects our media positions greatly. Maybe a support group or sharing of ideas. It is difficult to maintain a collection and do two full time jobs. You're doing a terrific job Nancy! I would like to see more communication between Jim and Nancy. A lot of the questions we have are media/technology related and sometimes Nancy is unable to answer them because Jim hasn't had the opportunity/time to discuss them with her. My recommendation is to set up regular short meetings to exchange info/ideas/concerns from both tech and media. We will do this. Things are running very smoothly. Return to the Table of Contents