Overdues system

[Chris Finer <cfiner@NEWFOUND.K12.NH.US>]

We've been talking lately about tracking overdues, and I'd like to share my
system with you.  I'd love to take credit for it, but it just sort of
happened, and I've capitalized upon it.

At this time of year, the guidance dept meets with all students to review
their schedules for next year. For efficiency, they do this in the library,
and I close the library to individuals and classes for this (brief!) three
day period. Each student is seen by the guidance staff and then by me --
they are not allowed to leave until I've had a chance to speak with them.
So in three days, I see ALL my 9th, 10th, and 11th graders and inform them
of their obligations.  Sometimes books come back on the spot, others --
"I'll see you tomorrow."

It certainly doesn't take care of everybody, but the conscientious ones
respond well to this system.

Chris Finer, LMG
Library Media Program
Newfound Regional High School
Bristol, NH   03222

cfiner@newfound.k12.nh.us

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is
the library.                                          --after Ray Bradbury

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