Re: [LM_NET] MIDDLE and SEC: Combining library collections

[msirwin <msirwin@OPTONLINE.NET>]

 If any of you have middle school and high school
libraries combined, how do you handle the issue of appropriateness of
materials for the younger student?  Is this a big issue?

We have a 6-12 conbo library and it is not an issue at all. Long before I
arrived the system was that all MS books got a hot pink YA label on the
spine. We're are using them less now, because the older kids wouldn't dream
of taking any of those out (unlike at the public library where YA means high
school). Moslty I guide the 5's and 6's to those but they are the Gordon
Korman, Avi, Creech books rather than Philip Pullman, Lois Duncan, Jacques
type. Hope that helps.

Maureen S. Irwin
Library Director
Rye Country Day School
Rye, NY 10580
msirwin@optonline.net

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