The Librarian before me weeded vigorously every section of the High School
library. We have neither the funds, staff, or time to replace all those
volumes.
Anyhow, to try to fill the voids, I placed interesting items relating to the
subjects on the shelves. The 550s feature a large petrified tree limb. In
the 570s one will find a teddy bear and a "taxidermied" bird. The anatomy
section has an arm dangling off the shelf (I purchased it for $2.00 one
Halloween). The 900s has a castle atop the Middle Ages books.
The HS kids get a kick out of finding the objects and they serve as
landmarks and visual cues for many.
For instance, I heard a student direct a classmate to the Uncle Sam
bobblehead doll for the books on political parties in the U.S.
The science teachers were a great source for objects and I patrol the halls
after "locker clean out day" to see if I can scavenge anything interesting
and of course, being a former classroom teacher, I have lots of "stuff" of
my own.
I stopped putting live plants on the shelves because we had too many water
and dirt spills.
In the fiction section, I just do mini displays like, books made into films,
horror, local writers, etc.
Rosemary McCarthy
Winthrop HS
Winthrop, MA
rmccarthy@winthrop.k12.ma.us
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