Research shows that poor kids do not have books and do not have the same
access to books that other kids do. Cover bar codes or school labels with a
sticker that says "Your district name, community literacy project. Please
keep this book as long as you are enjoying it, then pass it on." and then
place the books at food banks, soup kitchens, the Salvation Army or
laundromats etc. Low socio-economic status kids lose reading skill over the
summer while higher socio-economic students gain ground. Consider giving
them to the poorest school in your district and having kids take an armful
home for the summer.
Terri Chalaturnyk
Campbell River, BC
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Topics of the day:
1. TARGET: Discarding Old Books?
2. HIT: Photo Printing software
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:38:52 EDT
From: Theresa Haar <ABStuf@AOL.COM>
Subject: TARGET: Discarding Old Books?
Does anyone have any suggestions about what to do with old books? They are
mostly duplicate copies of picture books written 30-40 years ago,
serviceable
but not attractive. They have been removed from our catalog and I have
offered
them to the teachers in the building. Administration has asked if we can
come
up with a way to donate the books to an organization that may have use for
them. Any ideas? Thanks so much in advance.
Theresa Haar, Librarian
Washington Drive Primary School
Centerport, NY
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:47:00 -0400
From: Pat Bartoshesky <bartoapple@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: HIT: Photo Printing software
Here is a very belated and short hit from my request for recommendations of
a program to print photos. Thank you to both Carl and Jacquie.
>Number one rated is usually Photo Shop and >Shop and number
two is Photo Studio.
>They are the two best.
>Carl Seale, Librarian -- Retired
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> Photo Elements seems to be a good standard program. >At about $100, it is
much less expensive and much less >complex than PhotoShop(over $600 and
somewhat of >an industry standard for professional photographers).
> If you are looking for a very basic, easy to understand >program for
printing and resizing photos and also adding >text to the photos there is a
great little program that can >be downloaded for free from the internet - as
long as it >is being used by educators and not as a for-profit
> business. It is called irfanview and can be downloaded from
www.irfanview.com/
>Jacquie Henry, MLS
Pat Bartoshesky, Librarian
Highlands (elem.) School 2121 Gilpin Ave.
Wilmington, DE 19806 302-651-2715
bartoapple@comcast.net
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