Scholar Center?

On Mr. Fisches blog today, he talked about how the LPS CIO wants to change the name of "media center" for the library to "Scholar Center" or "Scholar in Residence". He says "I don't even like the term media center because the emphasis is still on the containers of information..." (Dan Mass). My opinion is that we shouldn't be focusing on things as little as how we refer to our library. In the big scheme of things, does the name really matter? Most kids that I know don't even call it the media center, it's just the library. When I see people focusing on things as little as the name for the library, it really makes me mad. Not because I don't care, but because there are a lot more other issues that we should be focusing on. For instance, school budget. As far as I know, budgets are pretty low at schools (not including grants). Dan Mass should be helping to find a way to deal with this; the problem of sports programs being cut of not funded properly is also an issue that needs to be dealt with. This is something that is a great problem to me because I have always been athletic and loved watching and playing sports.

To answer his question "So, if we were going to write a new job description for the Scholar in Residence at your school, what items would you include?", I would say that they should help students that struggle to deal with any technology, books, or anything of that matter. I would also say that they would need to be extremely good at working with kids and computers. This is the 21st century and they should know their way around a computer because unfortunately a lot of kids haven't had the chance to get educated in the use of "the tool of the future."