Destiny

Oh my GOD! I am in love! First order of business when I get my own library is to start work on getting Destiny if we don't already have it! It was great to have a demo from the experts. It almost seems too perfect. There must be something it doesn't do, but I'm in love! The only thing is, in bigger districts where there are so many schools using the system it could get difficult. Although it may open up a bunch of jobs for "catalogers." ;-) I love it, most of the schools I have worked in have such old systems. It seems like this would be the perfect system to get those systems to up grade with.

I keep thinking about where I want to end up and what I might find there. Ideally I would like to work overseas in a Department of Defense school, DODs, where Destiny might make a huge differnce. In some ways it doesn't seem like it would work. The schools overseas don't have districts the same way schools here do, but there are divisions. I only did my student teaching with DODs so I'm not sure how it is broken up. I know the automation system they had was far from perfect. Where I was there were two computers but they did not work in real time. If you checked out a book on one it didn't "show up" on the other until it was "rebooted." Which was maddening! I was in a school with 1000 students and we used both computers all day. Upgrading to a system that works in "real time" would be amazing. You could do so much with that, and maybe they have upgraded already and gone with something different, but man I LOVED this system. Having the catalog online for students and even parents to use at home would be outstanding. However if I can't get a job with DoDs I'd still like to work abroad in one of the many "American" or English speaking private schools. I have no idea what companies they may use for automation. It would be interesting to find out what systems they typically use. I'll have to talk with some friends I know.