Re: HS Video Checkout

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

We encourage students to check out videos.  They are a source of information and 
entertainment just like books.  Consider that 50-100 years ago, general students 
could not check out books.  Students were just not clean, educated, and careful 
enough.  Those days are long past.  But in some instances the blocks have just 
transferred to to video materials.  Over the last several years, I have had two 
teachers to ask me to restrict student video checkout on just two titles.  They 
wanted to "save" them for class instruction.  I stuck a note on the video case to 
accomodate the teachers' request and reshelved and reclassified them in Reference.  
If you think about it, however, that is sort of silly, since both videos are 
readily available at Blockbuster.
    I shelve videos in plastic cases along with books in the open library. Check 
out period is one week.
    As far as problems, I've circulated videos to students as young as 1st grade 
with no particular problems.  My experience has been that stuff the teachers want 
to "save" for instruction is going to sit on the shelf anyway.  Stuff the kids want 
to checkout is going to be used by the teachers for recreation which is copyright 
infringement and bad teaching.  If they get bent out of shape because Old Yeller is 
checked out the day they want to have a day to grade papers, the problem is not 
with the students checking out videos.  I think it would be hard to be a good 
teacher and demand that resources be removed from student access.
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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 Church.
donnacook@lycos.com
936-853-9345 (work)
936-569-2426 (home)








On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:55:50
 AnnMarie Brehmer wrote:
>Hi High School Librarians!
>Do you allow students to check out videos that the LMTC buys to take home
>with them?  Somewhere in our interim year between directors, some videos
>have been allowed to be checked out by students.  We're running into
>problems and differences in opinions.
>I need some opinions and advice.
>Thanks.
>
>AnnMarie Brehmer
>
>
>AnnMarie E. Brehmer
>Library Media Specialist/Director
>Holmen High School
>Holmen, Wisconsin
>(608) 526-4754
>
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