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We don't use magazines b/c we keep them for 5 years anyway and by that time
they are out of date, the vertical files have info from newspapers that we
also keep for only 5 years, after that the info should be in books or
encyclopedias

Sandy in Florida
Media Specialist, Mulberry Middle School
afn11720@afn.org

On Thu, 6 May 1999, sandes wrote:
>
> We always recycled information, going through any magazines that we were
> throwing out and ripping the still relevant articles out, creating a
> picture source file with the best pictures, keeping some for followups of
> contacts.  We applied a single subject heading and then we had parents or
> other helpers staple them like a booklet.  Kids and teachers loved it,
> although with (ultimately) some 43 filing cabinets, the
> filing/refiling/filing became quite a task.
>
> We did try some of the "bought" items found in Vertical File Index and a
> pamphlet service, but found it simply too interesting and useful to
> concentrate on the rest.
>
> Earl
> Earl Sande
> Secondary School Librarian
> International School of Tanganyika
> Post Office Box 2651
> Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
> (e-mail :  sandes@wilken-dsm.com)
>
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