Weed of the Month Club

[Karen DeFrank <defrank@VOICENET.COM>]

Dear LM-NET:
As you may remember, since last spring when Mike Eisenberg asked each of us
to
weed our Space and Astronomy books to reflect current scientific
information,
LM_NET has has a voluntary Weed of the Month group on different topics. Many
of us have been amused and surprised at the books we found in our own
libraries, and decided to remove some of them and replace them with current,
up-to-date, relevant materials.

We then decided to take on one topic a month, with the help of SUNLINK,
Florida's K-12 union database of library materials, located on the internet
at
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu
Since we started the Weed of the Month club, the SUNLINK staff have noted
over
300 hits per week from all over the globe!

The topic for February is DINOSAURS.   This topic was suggested by a fellow
LM_NETter, Joanne Ladewig, who asked us to address this topic.  Many thanks
to
Joanne, who thoroughly researched this topic!  Some of her important points
on
weeding dinosaur books include:  "...take a good look at the
illustrations...are the tails low and dragging behind them?...many have been
found to have different postures- more of a leaning forward position
allowing
the tails to be extended outward, held high..."  Joanne also mentioned the
dinosaur-to-bird controversy, and although scientists appear to be divided
on
this, it should be reflected in our library materials on dinosaurs. For more
complete information on Joanne's findings, watch for the Weed of the Month
web
pages on Dinosaurs, which will be posted on March 1st.

Please do a check of your books, audio visual materials, and vertical files
and see if you have anything that needs to be tossed and replaced.

THEN - share your findings with other LM-NETters.  Do you have some GREAT
titles of current information about dinosaurs?  Did you find something
absolutely appalling? Our LM_NET discussions are monitored by the SUNLINK
staff.  They are looking for your great/appalling books to add to their
lists
on the upcoming Weed of the Month website on dinosuars. Naturally if you
share
the title of an awful book, you name will *not* be used!

Maybe you know of a dinosaur that has a lack of available materials.  We
need
to know that, too! There may be aspiring authors out there, looking for
topics
to write about.

Thanks for your help.  We can learn so much from each other!

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