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Yes I've had similar but not quite so awful experiences. Most of my
teachers will search for missing books if one of their students have them
and are good about returning items-- sometimes a little late but usually
at a reasonable time. However we are currently missing our digital camera
which was stored in a locked cabinet. It and a video camera disappeared.
Supposedly the only people who have keys to the LMC are my aide and I and
the principal ( and custodians) All the cabinets in the building however
can be opened with the same key which everyone has-- duh, why lock it
anyway- I know that teachers ask custodian to open the room to get things
( at 7:25 when the library opens at 7:30!) cause I have come in and found
the lights on and things moved. We got the video camera back, turns out
the principal came in and got it for the music teacher who forgot he
needed it for his concert until after 4pm. He couldn't get the one from
the middle school where he is assigned because the smart aide in that
building has locked them up in a cabinet only she and the ms principal
have the key to!! So he found our principal and borrowed one of ours. We
spend almost a whole day trying to track it down as it was needed by
another teacher ( who wound up doing something else) Finally discovered
where it was through clever detective work ( I don't read all those
mysteries for nothing I guess) and the principal did come down later and
apologize for taking it without leaving a note or anything but it took a
week to get it back here. The digital camera is just gone-- no one claims
to have seen it and no one in administration seems to care that this
expensive piece of equipment is gone and that this district certainly
can't replace it.
As for the book, I don't think that it would hurt anything to ask the
teacher about replacing it. You obviously can't make him/her and I
wouldn't want to make a big deal of it but if the offer is made I sure
wouldn't turn it down. I can see both side of this but I think we all
know our staffs and know which ones will have a fit and which ones would
expect to be responsible. Money is so tight that it is so hard to replace
things that you shouldn't have to. I just thinkg it is in how you
approach it. In a former life, we ran all the overdues on the Follett
system, teacher and student alike, no teacher ever complained most said
they had forgotten about the book and brought it back or renewed it.
Offers for compensation came from the teachers and were never refused.
Just my opinion,.
Darlene Yasick
Media Specialist
Hopkins High School
lib027yas1@juno.com
Only the mediocre man is always at his best-- Somerset Maugham
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:32:42 -0500 Reed - Ann Cober <acreed@UMD5.UMD.EDU>
writes:
> Yes...I agree in theory, but what about the teacher who takes 25 plus
> books a year and never returns them? And what about the teacher who
> takes
> EVERYTHING on all the subjects she teaches...and then runs to the
> principal that you won't let her use the library when you limit her
> to 10
> to 15 books? (There were 4 other teachers in her dept. who could be
> teaching the same subject.) And what about the teacher who borrowed
> all
> the new books for the summer "to write a new currulium" and then
> didn't
> come back the next year...and went to another state with 25 NEW
> books. And what about the nurse who went thru the mail everyday and
> helped herself to all your magazines and who often didn't return
> them...and always swore it wasn't her ...and guess what, the very
> same
> magazines stopped disappearing the year she went elsewhere. And
> what
> about the teacher who always gave me what for about never having a
> working
> cassette play/recorder, who when he left and the custodian told me
> to go
> thru his room... I found SIX non-working cassette players in the
> corner... he never checked them out thru me with established
> procedures. This same teacher also had a boat load of supplies from
> my
> locked closet. The only thing I could ever figure was that I must
> have
> forgotten to lock it some night. Same teacher use to spend mega
> hours in
> the building at night and weekends...must have made a regular habit
> of
> checking to see if supply closets were locked. And what about Vol.
> 2 of
> the 4 volume (expensive) psychology reference set, that after being
> missing for 3 years, was returned by the new psychology teacher who
> found
> it in the previous teacher's file cabinet? After 23 years
> there have been other stories along the same lines...but you get the
> idea.
>
> Have I just been unlucky or have others experienced similiar
> incidents?
>
> Ann
>
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Josephine Dervan wrote:
>
> > I have been following this thread with interest.
> >
> > Many years ago when I started in my first teaching job, one
> teacher
> > often lost books from collections that she signed out for her
> class. I
> > tried to get her to assume financial responsibility. However she
> was a
> > good buddy of the principal. I was told by the principal that if a
> > teacher took out a book and misplaced the book it was OK to
> forgive any
> > fines. Reason: the book had been used by kids and for educational
> > purposes. At the time I thought that it was favoritism. I learned
> much
> > later that this was a wonderful piece of advice.
> >
> > I have never considered charging a teacher for a lost book since.
> I have
> > discovered over the years that we are in fact, all on the same
> team. To
> > antagonize a teacher over the cost of a book is foolish. What I do
> now
> > is to suggest that that if the book does turn up later, just send
> it
> > back. I make lots of friends that way. No matter how large a
> school is
> > it is not helpful to have enemies.
> >
> > My Media Center is a friendly place where all are welcomed-
> teachers and
> > students alike. If I make an enemy over a book it is not worth it.
> A
> > class can sense when a teacher and a Media Specialist are on
> friendly
> > terms and when they are not. It is easier for all to grit your
> teeth and
> > forget the whole thing. You never know when you may need favor
> from
> > her.
> >
> >
> > Jo
> > ***********************************************************
> > Josephine G. Dervan, Library Media Specialist
> > Strathmore Elementary School
> > Aberdeen, NJ 07747
> >
> > Home-
> > rderva@infi.net
> > School-
> > jdervan@marsd.k12.nj.us
> >
> > Staff Development for Technology Integration
> > http://www.uni.edu/profdev/staffplan
> >
> >
> > He who has a garden and a library, wants for nothing- Cicero
> >
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