Weed of the Month February 99

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

Good afternoon fellow LM_NETters!

The Weed of the Month web pages on February's topic of Sports have been
posted at the following URL:
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/

Titles with sports and sports figures as a theme are especially
important  to any K-12 collection in order to attract many reluctant
readers.  In
order  to convert those reluctant readers to lifelong readers, you have to
provide  reading materials that will first attract them, then hold their
interest,  and finally make them want to come back for more.  Readers
who end up
being disappointed with  materials that are out-of-date and unattractive
will be even more reluctant to return to the shelves and reading.

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weeding and titles to consider when replacing outdated materials.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 Sports 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 Sports
titles you would like others to discover. Please also share your
thoughts on weeding the Sports collection with your fellow LM_NETters!

A special "thanks" to fellow lm_netter Deborah Stafford, of General H.
H. Arnold  High School In Wiesbaden, Germany, for her positive comments
about Weed  of the Month in January's School Library Journal.
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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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