You want to know when this LMS manages the library? S/he does it when all the teachers at my school do their professional work – on his/her own time. Because if you aren’t directly interacting with students, grading them, or minding them, you’re not working! Never mind teacher collaboration, or promotion of reading and technology, or maintenance of a collection and library space, or outreach to the community, or research done for school personnel or professional development. Only warm-body-in-front-of-kids time ought to be paid time. And surely, with all that extra time in your schedule what with reductions in classrooms and new technologies you should be able to grade all the kids!

This is a disease of the schools, I think. Too many educators only respect others who do the exact same job that they do – so making the librarian grade is, to them, raising him/her to the right level, treating him/her just like all the other teachers. Too many librarians are uninterested in using library tools to enhance the ability of students and staff to read and research, so they go along with this sort of thing because it’s what they’re used to, and adding subject headings, using selection tools or taking part in library system activities are too hard to fit into their schedule.

I’m sorry to rant. Give ‘em all the same grade, after having each class take quizzes about the DDC or all the books you read to them, using your school clicker system so that you are integrating technology AND assessment into your lessons. Move “Find New Job” to the top of your to do list.