Media specialists— Targeted for TechTrends!

Summary

Clearly, teachers and administrators in schools are pressed for time to keep up with the latest developments that could affect their performance. The Oakland Schools New Media Information Center provides many services and products to customers, especially media specialists to help fill this need. Many of the products and services (database training videos, free online tutorials, district-specific database sheets, and workshops) that we offer are mentioned in this paper. We feel that media specialists are often the lifelines to teachers and administrators in schools. We strive to keep communication and information flowing between our staff and the media specialists through our REMC meetings, school visits, the website, MAME meetings and listservs.