Re: SEC: department libraries

[Nelson <nelsonb@SLS.LIB.IL.US>]

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On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Carol Harma wrote:

> I am new this year on the high school scene and am faced with a tough
> decision.  One of our departments has an extensive book collection in its
> resource room.  These are books which were purchased with department, not
> library money.  The library has a satellite of our computer network in this
> area to circulate textbooks.  The assistant who works there would like to
> add these other books to our database to ease circulation.

        I like to think that all materials in a school are accessible from
the library database.  In fact our previous "wonderful" business manager
(fired due to administrative politics) required that reference and other
materials bought by any department in the school be "logged in" to the
library system.  This was to prevent duplication and be sure materials
bought and paid for really arrived at the school and stayed there.

  She
would like
> to do a title only entry.  My feeling is that if they are in our library
> database they should be cataloged like library books to ensure
> accessibility.  Has anyone else had a situation like this?

        I am working on putting the Reading Lab materials in the
database.  Many of these will have only a call number, author, and title
entry.  I would like to do more, but there is no time for that.  In
theory, I object to having libraries located elsewhere than in the
library.  The little urchins need to see the library as the place to find
knowledge, throughout their lives.  But, other politics prevent this at
present.    Bruce


 Obviously
I am > not making this decision on my own without talking to this group of
> teachers and district media people, but your input/ experiences would be
> appreciated.
> Carol
>
> Carol Harma, Springfield High School. Springfield, OR
> charma@efn.org   or charma@sps.lane.edu
>