GEN: Weed of the Month April 99

[Carol McWilliams <mcwillia_c@popmail.firn.edu>]

Good morning fellow LM_NETters!
The Weed of the Month web pages on April's topic of Personal Finance
have been posted at the following URL:  http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/

April is the month that we all have personal finance on our
minds--especially around the 15th!  Personal finance has become more and
more complicated over the years. The stakes are very high for today's
young people.  A book published in 1980 will have misleading figures for
wages and living expenses.  Consider how your personal finance materials
relate to your students at this stage in their lives.  Elementary
students are learning to manage an allowance, while high school students
are trying to figure out financing a car.

The SUNLINK Weed of the Month Club is an effort to help provide School
Library Media Specialists with guidelines and suggestions for weeding
their collections a little at a time as well as for adding quality
materials. Included are sections on how to get started, the rationale
for weeding a topic area, criteria to consider, titles to consider for
weeding and titles to consider when replacing outdated materials. These
suggested lists are neither comprehensive nor authoritative.  You may
agree or disagree with some of the titles. That's fine! You may have a
more recent edition or version of a title that you would never consider
for weeding. Remember that weeding is always subject to your
professional judgment because you know your students and your curriculum.

When you have examined your school's Personal Finance collection and
found titles to weed, please email me at the address below and we will
add them to the list (without your name!). The same goes for terrific
new Personal Finance titles you would like others to discover. Please
note that the "titles to consider for purchase” list is very short this
month.  We really need your input!
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It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether they are
good or not. — Lucius Annaeus SENECA (3 B.C.-65 A.D.)

Carol McWilliams
mcwillia_c@popmail.firn.edu
Assistant director, SUNLINK
Florida's K-12 Library Union Database
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu

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