Re: Instead of shelf markers...

[Donna Steel Cook <donnacook@mailcity.com>]

This is a GREAT idea!  LM_NET has produced a gold mine of great ideas for me over 
the years, and now I'll have this one.  Thanks, Deb, for sharing it.
    I've never liked the concept of shelf markers because in the "real" world, the 
public library, there are no shelf markers.  One of my jobs is to teach students so 
that they are empowered in the "real" world--when they walk into a library 
anywhere, they are competent.  If they have to ask for a "stick" in order to get a 
book from the shelf, they can't feel competent. Besides, I've never witnessed shelf 
markers being used very effectively.  Most of the time, kids pull a book out and 
THEN jab in the "stick" in approximately the place from which they removed the 
book. What a shelf marker says to a student is "I don't trust you to be able to 
read spine labels."  I want to teach reading spine labels so that I can tell 
students "You can find the information you need, no matter where you are, because 
you can read spine labels."
    Now I can give them this neat little trick to mark their place while I still 
teach spine labels, and they will have the choice to use it or not as they feel 
competent.

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Donna Cook, Nacogdoches, Texas :
Teacher/Librarian Central High;
District Coordinator, Central ISD;
Library Consultant, Douglass ISD;
"Minister of Information" First Baptist.
donnacook@mailcity.com
409-853-9345





On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 07:01:42
 Deb Logan wrote:
>Hi!
>
>    Over the years, I have moved away from shelf markers.  Instead, I
>teach kids to "Pull out (slightly) the book beside the one you want.
>Then you can put it right back beside the book that sticks out from the
>rest."  Sometimes the book ends up on the wrong side of the pulled out
>book, but ultimately it will be in the right "neighborhood".  This is a
>practice that will work in any library.  Students are "not at a loss"
>when they use the public library because the public library does not
>have shelf markers.  I have modeled this method for the students so long
>that now I find myself pulling out a book when I am looking.  Putting a
>book back is easy that way.
>

>Sincerely,
>Deb Logan
>Librarian/Media Specialist
>Taft Middle School
>Marion, OH
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