MAY I advise Mrs Goodrick that her school in the 1920s may well have had a “Learning Resource Manager” (Letters, July 6), but under a different name.
My school, a grammar school in West Riding, when I was there in thethe 1940s, had a school library, and one of the masters served as librarian.
On a recent visit to the school, now considerably larger and in different premises, I was shown the library which not only had the expected rows of shelves full of books, but also now contained rows of computers and monitors, and I was introduced to the Librarian, sorry no, to the Learning Resources Centre Manager.
The size of the school now warrants a full-time appointment to the post; it is no longer shared with teaching responsibilities.
This is just one example of how job titles have expanded to try to be all-embracing. The county borough council which was responsible for all the schools in the borough had an “Education Officer” to run the education department.
I see the county council’s education is now headed by a “Corporate Director of Learning, Children and Young People’s Services.”
David Bottomley, Brafferton, Helperby.
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