Re: ELEM: Library automation

[Maggi Rohde <maggi@INTRANET.ORG>]

Anne --

I don't know about you, but I don't have an aide.  I wanted the kids
to be as self-sufficient as possible when they check out books.  So
I used the barcode-on-the-shelf-marker concept.  I got 400 free
paint stirrers from Home Depot and made a shelf marker for each
child by printing labels with their name (first name BIG, last name
small), teacher and grade.  Under that I stuck a bar code.  The
shelf markers are stored in plastic pitchers behind the desk, marked
with their teacher's name.

When the class comes in, I have shelf markers laid out on the desk.
Each child takes theirs.  They scan their own bar codes and their
own books.  I start this at 1st grade (kindies still use cards in
plastic binders).  I have very few problems.

Rules are: no one touches your shelf marker but you.  Any hitting of
anything (another child, a desk, yourself) with a shelf marker
results in having the shelf marker taken away  - which means no book
check-out.  This curbs 99% of shelf-marker-as-sword play.

Hey, and some of them even use them as shelf markers!  =)

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Maggi Rohde, Library/Media Specialist
Allen Elementary School, Ann Arbor, MI
        maggi@intranet.org
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