Hi everyone. I’m Nick Haynes, a librarian and tech assistant at a middle school in the Bay Area, finishing my MLIS at SJSU. My role covers standard library duties, student PC and print support, and a 1-to-1 laptop program currently transitioning from Chromebooks to MacBook Neos. That means checking out books, troubleshooting devices, managing print queues, and preparing for a hardware rollout.<\/p>\n
I came to this work after ten years in post-production and advertising in San Francisco. The hyperlinked library model is exciting because of what it opens up for students in terms of access. A middle school library that functions as a genuinely connected, participatory space could change how students relate to research, to reading, and to information generally.<\/p>\n
The harder question is who does that work. Librarians are already carrying responsibilities that go well beyond what the job title suggests. Adding the infrastructure, training, and ongoing maintenance that a hyperlinked model requires means asking already stretched staff to take on something substantial. The students I work with would benefit from that kind of access, and I want to build toward it, but getting there while managing a hardware transition is a lot to hold at once.<\/p>\n
I’m curious whether others in the course are running into the same tension and how they’re thinking about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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