GEN> 'donated' books

[Chuck Finnigan <cfinnigan@SWSD.WEDNET.EDU>]

My assistant of 7 years (3 years of my tenure) is leaving for a similar
position in another school in our district.  It's the same school that
our former librarian moved to when I took over.  The former librarian
removed quite a few books (hundreds?) to take to her new school where
she is principal/librarian.  My assistant is taking 500 books with her
(our total collection is 10,000).  These books were all paid for and
donated to our library by these folks, but are now 'following' them,
being removed from our circulation and being used in the other district
school.

Is this a common practice?  Is anyone else out there doing this or have
you heard of anyone who is?  We just feel that it will create quite a
hole in our collection and may want to create a new policy for donated
books.

Thanks for your thoughts, comments, suggestions...

chuck


chuck finnigan
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library/technology
Central Elementary School
601 Talcott St
Sedro Woolley, WA 98284
cfinnigan@swsd.wednet.edu
http://www.swsd.wednet.edu/ct/lr.htm

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