GEN: Overdue Books

[Jenny Baltes <bbaltes@indy.net>]

Please post:

<SO: how do you encourage students to take books out while getting them to
bring them back for others to borrow?>  <snip>
  Mary Ann Shaffer


My thoughts exactly!!   I am new at my school this year, and school
startsThursday, August 12th.  Yikes!   I am in a quandary about overdues and
how to balance the need to get the books back with the need to encourage the
basic skill of READING.  I understand that responsibility is also a skill we
are teaching, but when children are turned off to checking out books and
reading because they do not get the support they need at home to return
materials  (i.e. no special place at home for the books, no parental concern
over the care of library materials),  I do not want to exacerbate the
problem by pointing out their late book returns.  I plan to discuss this
with my principal and work on solutions.  If he isn't worried about getting
materials back, I will ask him to foot the bill for replacements out of the
building budget.  If he is concerned, I will make sure that the solution we
come up with has his support from the start.  Does this sound logical?

Jenny Baltes, Media Specialist
Grassy Creek Elementary School
Indianapolis, IN
jbaltes@warren.k12.in.us

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