One thing I do at the elementary level to get books back is award prizes
at the end of the year for those who have all the books returned. I call
it Mrs. B's garage sale. Its all junk I want to get rid of. Last year I
really weeded the library and one of the choices was discarded books.
The kids loved getting one and several remarked that they read it and it
really was good. Our district allows us to use these discarded books
"educationally" after discarding, and I consider encouraging summer
reading educational. I had less than 10 books at the end to send to
surplus.=20
I've also called in the morning for my worst offenders and asked them to
put in their backpack. It really does work, 'cause as the previously
email stated all the family is listening to the conversation.=20
Nelda Brangwin
Cherry Valley Elementary School
Duvall, WA=20
-----Original Message-----
From: DEFRANK, KAREN [mailto:KDEFRANK@GLASSBORO.K12.NJ.US]=20
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 1:08 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Kids paying for books
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, =3D
>>> books come in much more quickly! =3D20
>>>
>>> I am going to be making it a policy for next year
>> that students who did =3D
>>> not return or pay for all books this year will
>> only be able to check out =3D
>>> one at a time, as opposed to the other kids (k-2
>> may choose 3 books, 3-6 =3D
>>> may choose 5 books). This will allow the 'repeat
>> offenders' to check =3D
>>> out, yet there will still be a consequence for not
>> having taken care of =3D
>>> their obligations.
>>>
>>> I am also trying mild bribery in this, my first
>> year: as each class =3D
>>> gets all their books turned in, they get to have a
>> library party- =3D
>>> popcorn, sugary candy, Goldfish, etc. Hopefully
>> this will work, because =3D
>>> last year the school board cut the extended time,
>> and I now leave at the =3D
>>> same time as all the other teachers. I will not
>> be coming in over the =3D
>>> summer to do inventory when previously, the
>> librarian had two weeks =3D
>>> after school and two weeks before it begins in the
>> fall to deal with =3D
>>> inventory, etc.
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>>> jdavidson@solomon393.k12.ks.us
>>> Elementary Librarian
>>> Solomon USD 393=3D20
>>> 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 =3D
>>> can't
>>> always change the wording on reports that are
>> printed out.
>>>
>>> Toni Koontz
>>> akoontz@cdeducation.org
>>> Media Specialist
>>> St. Charles Preparatory
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>>> Columbus Ohio
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