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700 students - 14000+ books = 49 lost. No security system
C. Poole
Lakeshore Middle School
Stevensville, MI
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, anita.nagel wrote:
>Hi Holly and Robert,
>
>I'm another Canadian who is still alive and kickin'. We don't finish the
>school year until the very last day of June! Yuck!
>Anyway, when I worked in a junior high school about 3 years ago I averaged
>about 300+ books lost (not lost books paid for either!) and I worked there
>approx. seven years! Our collection was about 8000. We had popular sets
>of books that would just walk off the shelf. Our problem though, was no
>security and the library was at the end of the school through which staff
>entered the school from the parking lot. We had 2 outside exit doors and
>one which led to the hall and the rest of the school. The doors from the
>parking lot were not locked after I left for the day and I was always at a
>loss as to what I could do to prevent these mysterious disappearances. We
>usually lost 20+ popular author's books such as R.L. Stine, Stephen King,
>etc. I would tear my hair out every year especially when the cost to
>replace those books never materialized. What a tragedy! In fact, my
>first year at this school the student council had helped to purchase a
>computer for the library. It was stored behind my circ desk (still in the
>boxes) and was STOLEN a few days before school started. I had a bad
>feeling about leaving it stored there. I didn't ask for it to be brought
>down to the library but happened to notice it out on a table when I went
>in to check out decorating the library late in August. Anyway, someone
>just walked in (we had renovations being done in the office at the
>time),and walked out with a brand new computer! We never found out who
>the perpetrator was!
>
>Anyway, I am now in an elementary school and this year I will be able to
>compare whether it'll be as bad here. I certainly hope not! I'll let you
>know.
>
>Anita Nagel, Library Technician
>Margaret Wooding School
>Redcliff, AB.
>anita.nagel@prrd.ab.ca
>
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