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I have an elementary school and one great way I get the books back is to
call about 6:30 at night. I identify myself and ask for the child. It's fun
to hear the whole house quiet down so they can listen to why I am calling. I
ask the child to get the book and put it in the backpack RIGHT NOW. It works
wonders.

Karen DeFrank, LMS
Bullock School
Glassboro, NJ 08028
kdefrank@glassboro.12.nj.us



> From: Ken Haycock <kenhaycock@YAHOO.COM>
> Reply-To: Ken Haycock <kenhaycock@YAHOO.COM>
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 17:43:13 -0400
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: Kids paying for books
>
> A collague of mine (secondary TL) started having her
> aide call homes at 7:30 each morning. Got telephone
> numbers through the school database.
> Amazing how many books came back each day when that
> got around. Almost eliminated the problem.
> --Ken
> --- "Glasgow, Joanne" <GlasgowJ@HSD401.ORG> wrote: >
> Hi folks,
>>
>> I work at a HS so I alway wonder if the notes I send
>> home via US Mail ever
>> make it into the parent/guardians hands.  I stopped
>> holding report cards
>> because after making a big deal of it, spending
>> hours and hours hounding the
>> kids and holding just the 16 worst offenders, those
>> report cards were still
>> on my desk at the end of the next semester with the
>> fines still not paid!!
>> Then I looked at the grades -- I should have
>> threatened to hand deliver them
>> to the parent at work instead!!!
>>
>> Basically I do what I can and try not to visiably
>> mourn over the lost of
>> books I really liked!
>>
>> Joanne Benson Glasgow
>> Library Media Specialist
>> Evergreen High School
>> 830 SW 116th Street
>> Seattle, WA  98146
>> 206-433-2311 ext 235 or 236
>>
>>
>> "It is known that knowledge is power, and power is
>> energy,  and energy is
>> matter, and matter is mass, and therefore large
>> accumulations of knowledge
>> distort time and space.  This is why all bookshops
>> look alike, and why all
>> second-hand bookshops seem so much larger on the
>> inside - and why all
>> libraries, everywhere, are connected"
>> The Science of Discword, by Terry Pratchett,
>> Ian Stewart  & Jack
>> Cohen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jennifer Davidson
>> [SMTP:jdavidson@SOLOMON393.K12.KS.US]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 6:53 AM
>>> To:   LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>>> Subject:      Re: Kids paying for books
>>>
>>> I have found that when I send a note home with the
>> replacement cost, =
>>> books come in much more quickly! =20
>>>
>>> I am going to be making it a policy for next year
>> that students who did =
>>> not return or pay for all books this year will
>> only be able to check out =
>>> one at a time, as opposed to the other kids (k-2
>> may choose 3 books, 3-6 =
>>> may choose 5 books).  This will allow the 'repeat
>> offenders' to check =
>>> out, yet there will still be a consequence for not
>> having taken care of =
>>> their obligations.
>>>
>>> I am also trying mild bribery in this, my first
>> year:  as each class =
>>> gets all their books turned in, they get to have a
>> library party- =
>>> popcorn, sugary candy, Goldfish, etc.  Hopefully
>> this will work, because =
>>> last year the school board cut the extended time,
>> and I now leave at the =
>>> same time as all the other teachers.  I will not
>> be coming in over the =
>>> summer to do inventory when previously, the
>> librarian had two weeks =
>>> after school and two weeks before it begins in the
>> fall to deal with =
>>> inventory, etc.
>>>
>>> Thanks to everybody who posts- I don't know what I
>> would do w/o LM_NET.  =
>>> I consider it one of my most crucial professional
>> resources.
>>>
>>> Jennifer Davidson, MLS
>>> jdavidson@solomon393.k12.ks.us
>>> Elementary Librarian
>>> Solomon USD 393=20
>>> Solomon, KS
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Toni Koontz [mailto:akoontz@CDEDUCATION.ORG]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:13 AM
>>> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>>> Subject: Re: Kids paying for books
>>>
>>>
>>> Years ago I changed the wording to reflect that
>> any monies I charged for
>>> late, lost or severely damaged books were "fees".
>> Unfortunately, you =
>>> can't
>>> always change the wording on reports that are
>> printed out.
>>>
>>> Toni Koontz
>>> akoontz@cdeducation.org
>>> Media Specialist
>>> St. Charles Preparatory
>>> www.cdeducation.org/schools/sc
>>> Columbus Ohio
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