Baltimore's Lucky Librarian

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Staff -- School Library Journal, 10/01/2003

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It's not all bad news. Fran Glick, a media specialist at the recently opened $35.3 million New Town High School in Ownings Mills, MD, calls herself "the luckiest librarian in the world," and little wonder—she presides over a state-of-the-art media center with a $450,000 startup budget for books.

Glick, who embarked on a librarian's ultimate shopping spree before the school's opening in late August, has purchased 18,000 new items, including several $14,000 encyclopedia sets, to stock the media center that she helped design as part of Baltimore County Public Schools' Library Media Cohort program (see "Della Curtis ," July 2003, pp. 50–51). The reading room alone boasts 28 Internet-accessible computers and there are dozens more in adjacent computer and media production labs.

Glick's operating operating budget for next year will be about $16,000, according to Della Curtis, Baltimore County's coordinator of library information services.