K-12 Library restrictions

[Ken Campbell <kenc@N2MAIL.COM>]

 I am in my third year as K-12 Librarian/7th Grade Girls English/ High  School 
Computer-Video
Technology teacher (someone has to do it!). The library has the main collection on
wall bookshelves and the kindergarten and juvenile collection on semi-mobile shelves
(takes two people to move them) all in the same room. Once or twice a month the 
superintendent
will pass on a parental complaint about an elementary student checking out an age
inappropriate book he/she has gotten from the main shelves instead of the "J" or
"E" shelves. I try to steer the students to "their" areas, but a handful insist on
checking out other books they have found which might be considered high school 
level.
If I am aware they are checking out such a book I will try to suggest a more 
appropriate
book but such a suggestion seems to make the book they have chosen even more 
desirable.
I am reluctant to pull the book from the student's hands and say no, you may not
check it out. At least they are reading something. If I ask them to try to read a
sample page, they claim their mom or dad will read it to them.
Any suggestions for strategies to answer my superintendentıs complaints would be
appreciated.

Ken Campbell
South Haven, KS K-12 School

kenc@n2biking.com



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