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OFFICE MEMO HIT: MIDDLE-CD-ROM Checkout Date: 6/6/95
A special thanks to all to responded to my question. I have listed the
responses below:
From: V. Martin Sul_vmartin@pstcc.cc.tn.us
Joyce: I have three work stations with CD-Rom drives and I purchased about a
dozen CD's this year. So far, I've been very informal about circulating
them. I have them all processed with barcodes, etc.and the jewel cases are
labeled. I put the jewel case and the manual- if there is one- together in a
plastic bag and keep them lined up on the counter just inside my workroom
door. Students are allowed to self-serve and I do not "check out" the disks.
We've been doing this all semester, and I've been pretty lucky. Only one
disk has been damaged (probably intentional vandalism) and one disk
disappeared this week.
I'm afraid I'm going to have a tighten security next year by checking them
out at circulation. All my machines are clustered near the desk, so it
shouldn't be too difficult.
Favorite titles: Encarta, Sports Illustrated Almanac, People Magazine,
Guiness Book of World Records, Reptiles (from Nat'l Geo. Zooguides series),
Chessmaster (included in a 4-pack from Software Toolworks), Maevis Beacon
Teaches Typing.
From: Toni Wooten <twooten@nando.net>
I would just caution you to check with your vendor/producers of the
CD-ROMs to make sure that it is legal to run a disk on more than one
station, or are they all network versions. thre has been much
controversy on this topic, and we need to make sure we are not violating
copyright if we run them "rampantly." Are you planning on take-home
checkout? Some schools are doing that, and I am not sure that it is on
the up and up. Just my input here.
From: Mary Jane Hopkins <mjhopkin@jeffco.k12.co.us>
I have a middle school 7-8 of over 1000 students. I have 3 stand alone
CD ROMS in LMC- 1 Mac, 2 PC. I have a wooden crate that I bought at
discount store for holding CDS's behind the desk. I barcode each case
and have the student give me their ID cd for the CD and then when they
return I give them ID card back. It works fine but often there are people
in line waiting to use.I also limit free printing to 2 pages and then you
pay 10 cents a page. Otherwise I found them printing reams of pages
which I knew they wouldn't use and this backed up useage as well. If you
receive any other good ideas I would like you to share them with me.
Student favorites are Where in world is Carmen Sandiego for fun.
Encyclopedias are used, Picture atlas of the world for the maps, SIRS for
newspaper and magazine articles, Animals at San Diego zoo for biome
project in science.
From: Joan Marshall jmarsha@minet.gov.mb.ca
We are a K to 9 school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:
south central Canada just above North Dakota. There are 550 students at
our school, 330 of them junior high age. We have just automated our
library (too bad you can't see the grey hair we developed) but have had
four computers with CD ROM capability since September, two since Sept. of
'93. In that time we lost 3 CD ROM's to theft (one was returned; we
suspect a teacher was too embarrassed to admit they forgot to sign it
out). However, we were naively keeping them on a counter near our office
door in a pile. Can you believe it!!! Anyway, after the third theft we
went to locking them in a drawer and requiring anyone, including teachers
and teaching assistants, who was going to use them at a work station, to
sign them out in an exercise book (name, homeroom, date, time, CD
borrowed and a place for us to initial when the CD was returned). Each
time someone wanted a CD they had to find us, we had to unlock the
drawer, sign out and when it was returned we had to again unlock the
drawer and so on. This is a pain in the neck, but we haven't lost any
more CD's. The only people with keys to the drawer are myself, my
library technician, and the five people on duty in the library at
various noon hours. We try to limit the time a student spends at one
station if there others waiting. We also heavily advertised that the cost of
lost CD's
would be the responsibility of the person who had signed them out. Students
are
properly paranoid over this now and although at first we thought we had
gone overboard, now we're pleased with the system.. The idea of barcoding
the case had never occurred to us. Did you also label the CD's in some
way? There has been so much controversy over this that we haven't done
anything with ours. Anyway, hope this is helpful, and we would be happy
to learn of any other ideas you receive.
From: s_lochhead@mentor.unh.edu (Shelley Lochhead)
We have been circulating Mac cd-roms (the dos/windows ones are indexes,
etc. which stay on dedicated stations/servers) for a year, now.
3 day circulation, just like the videos and other a-v stuff. Borrowers may
use them on any of our Mac stations in the library, elsewhere in the
building, or take them home. We have the copyright labeling up to snuff,
and haven't lost anything yet. Heck - most of them are cheaper than books!
3D Atlas is very popular, as are Encarta and the other encyclopedias (they
mostly came with bundles - the Information Finder is always running over on
the dos station). Sports Illustrated Almanac, Cinemania, and World
Factbook (which I think is b o r i n g, by comparison...) are next.
We had over 100 circulations last month.
And we have grades 7-12 - 7th and 8th graders are big users.
From: Lynn McCree <lmcc@tenet.edu>
My favorite title that I own is Musical Instruments by Microsoft. My soon
to be favorite title which I plan to purchase is Encyclopedia of Science
by Dorling Kindersley sp? I only have two extra workstation that aren't
on the network so I keep the cd-roms behind my desk. A student asks for one
and must return it to get another. The kids seem to join each other
amicably enough so I haven't had to set a time limit yet.
From: "Carr - Susan J." <sjcarr@UMD5.UMD.EDU>
I am a media assistant at a middle school. Our media staff has a
system for checking out CD'S to students. What we do is as follows:
We have the student sign a sheet for the CD they want to check out.
There
is a single sheet for each CD we own and we only allow one CD out per
student per sitting (and no swapping). We allow students to check CD's
out during lunch mainly; however, once in a while a student will want to
use one for a project.
I hope I haven't confused you with this explaination. If this
doesn't help, let me know and I'll reword it. Good luck.
From: Faye McKenny Mckennf1@mail.firn.edu
I am one of the Media Specialist at Landmark Middle School (2200+
students).
We are currently using stand alone CD-ROM stations (our LAN system has been
ordered), yea! We keep the CD-ROM Titles in a drawer at the circulation
desk.
Students are required to sign for a title (we have a clip board with space
for
Name, Title, Date, Time-Out and Time-IN) We have Groliers and Comptons
Encyclopedias and...
U.S. Presidents
Atlas of Florida
The Presidents
Guinnes Multimedia Disc of Records **
Junior DISCovering Authors **
Dinosaud Adventure **
Space Adventure **
Encarta**
** The students like these and also enjoy using the computer to access the
encyclopedia. We have not lost a single CD-ROM since we started the sign-out
program. Hope this helps.
From: Julie Anderson
I'm in a high school, but I think our procedures might apply. I barcode
and catalog our software so it's accessible in the online catalog.
Students here have ID cards, so we hold their IDs while they are using
CD-ROMs (we also do this for mice so we don't lose the balls :/ ). We
check out software on an hourly basis, so they must all be returned at the
end of the period.
I hope this helps. :)
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