scotty10

Speaking as a library manager, it's SOOO tempting to say, 'Serves the school right for being cheap-skates and not employing a proper 'librarian'!' Our school emloys 2 professional staff, and we ALWAYS follow up bad behaviour, call back untidy students, get them to leave mice, chairs, monitors, keyboards all tidy before they leave. The more staff who insist on it, the morethe kids just do it automatically.. It's down to expectations and following up, as ever. It's false economy trying to self-run either a library or an ICT suite - unfortunately you hear of an increasing number of schools where Heads throw out all the books and think you can just do with computers; how short sighted, Adolf!

They said this was definitely an option but not a very acceptable one; the package we bought ought to work properly not try and settle for a 'lash-together' job with a new system! Think there were also other issues with not being on an RM machine... One or two promising developments today, maybe things are looking up?

Our school has been trying to get Eclipse.net installed and working properly on an RM network; so far, after several weeks and many attempts, it only issues resources (Circulation) onthe server, not on the librarians' machines. (I'm one of the unfortunate librarians who has been stuck with recording hundreds and hundreds of loans manually in an A4 notebook for the last 5 weeks; we are rather fed-up to say the least....it's even more fun when you have to seach through all the previously-transcribed loans to delete them when the books get returned!) Neither Microlibrarian nor RM seem to be able to resolve this problem and we are left rueing the day we switched off Alice! Has anyone else had similar problems and been able to resolve them? Surely we are not alone in experiencing this problem... and maybe someone has a solution, other than to keep buying A4 spiral notebooks. Wonder how many notebooks you can buy for £1500?