GEN: Archiving Magazines

[Josephine Dervan <rderva@infi.net>]

This had NOTHING to do with Tiger Woods and the valuable card. As I am
reading the comments I am surprised to hear that so many of you save old
magazines.

In my library we save the professional magazines as well as National
Geographic and Zoo books. Everything else we circulate once they are no
longer current. Eventually they begin to fall apart. Some get lost (?)
and we collect a fee for it. In June the magazines are distributed to
the well behaved children in classes on the last week.

It has never crossed my mind to archive these magazines because of the
amount of valuable space that this would take up as well as the fact
that our collections would not be complete.

Our magazines are quite popular. We almost had a revolt last year when
the company we ordered from went out of business before filling our
orders. We discovered this in December and it was too late to place
another order. So I went to picked up copies from the discount stores
(B.J's and Costco) instead.


How do the rest of you handle magazines? Do they circulate? Are they
archived? I am curious.

Thanks in advance,
Jo

PS. Our district has strict rules about how materials purchased with
public funds must be sold. Even our lost book fees are to be handed in
and not seen again unless the book is returned. I am always exhorting
students to try to find the book because it is more valuable to us than
the lost book fee.
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Josephine G. Dervan, Library Media Specialist
Strathmore Elementary School
Aberdeen, NJ 07747

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