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Hi all-

Hope everyone has been enjoying the summer.  For those of us on Long Island,
we all have been roasting!  I was wondering if any of you have had the kind
of situation that I am now facing.  I am starting my first year as a school
media specialist this September in an elementary school.  The school is under
construction, and my library is going to be under construction for at least
the entire school year.  Last Thursday I was in the building and I moved the
books out of the media center into two separate locations: a classroom which
will serve as my media center for the year and a trailer where the rest of
the books will be stored.  I would say that the ratio of books is 40%
classroom and 60% trailer.  This is my problem.  I have all of my picture
books, but I could not fit all of the non-fiction, reference, or fiction in
the classroom.  They had to build me shelves and I only have so many.  My
class periods are only 30 minutes, and I am a prep, so I have about 30
classes a week.  Students are not allowed in the trailer. I am looking for
the most efficient and practical way to rotate the books.  I am not sure that
I should waste classroom time asking the kids what they might want.  As it
is, book exchange takes about 15 minutes on its own. Do you think I should do
some sort of sign up sheet or suggestion box for the students? Or should I
just rotate them on a weekly basis? I am hoping that some of you might have
some good suggestions for a me, I am feeling a little overwhelmed already.
But when it is all done, I will have a brand new library twice the size of
the original! Yay!
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me-

Melissa Lawler
(New) School Media Specialist
Lynwood Avenue School, K-6
Farmingville, New York
MKL7172@aol.com

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