Re: GEN: Classroom/library

["Earl J. Moniz" <earlj@moniz.org>]

Jeff,
to continue with your community metaphor,
not permitting those who can afford to drill their own wells or
treatment plants on their own property (classroom collections) and to
somehow coerce them to come to the community well or pool (central
library) isn't a final solution either... it has to be a compromise
situation, I believe... just as we don't have the resources to build
everyone in our community a mansion, it does not stop those who can
afford it from buying one anyway...  So, to discourage teachers who want
to build private collections (or have them donated by parents) for their
classrooms because librarians begin to feel a loss of control or
influence is doing a disservice to the students.

Now, if the funding is coming from the district, and the items have to
be accounted for, I think they should be cataloged and then issued to a
specific classroom teacher (or team perhaps) for the duration of the
unit or a specific period of time (a year perhaps) - but they should be
returned to the library for accountability when the need has terminated
(and also some method of displaying to patrons who search for them on
the OPAC exactly where they are needs to be devised).  [At the very
least, they should be inventoried.]  I don't think the intent of the
programs to put books in the classrooms is to give them to the teachers
to take with them when they move or leave...

I hope I'm not way off-base with those sorts of notions... am I?

Aloha y'all ... Earl J.
Librarian of Fortune
Web-based at www.MONIZ.org
Reality-based at Fayetteville, NC

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