I've posted this before but will repeat when I have done... I finally gave
up on the printers as the cost was becoming huge. The students also had the
nasty habit of hitting the Print button 5-6 times...ah for the virtue of
Patience.
We also don't have the money for the paper and the toner.... So,
I removed all printers from the library - posted signs - and now students
must put everything they wish to print in Word format (RTF) on a disk and
submit it to the circulation desk. I've had one complaint "this is stupid"
from a student this year. My reply - "So, don't print."
It works beautifully - and the printing has gone way down.. Surprise!
Surprise! they are now printing at home. I keep extra disks at the desk for
students who "forgot mine" - and require some collateral when they use it -
I lost every disk the first week - but no more.
Allan
Dr. Allan O'Grady Cuseo (Brother Donogh Allan, MGC)
Bishop Kearney High School Library
125 Kings Highway South
Rochester, New York 14617
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585-342 - 4694 (FAX)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sue Fox" <sfox.Mcevoy@BIBB.K12.GA.US>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 8:37 AM
Subject: [LM_NET] TECH: Printing Policies
> I am having major problems!! First of all, I've about decided I'm
> running a computer lab, not a media center.
> The cartridges & paper do not come out of my budget, and we are a Title
> I school (very low socioeconomic) so I have not been charging for
> printing. However, I am going through about a case of paper a WEEK and
> a toner cartridge every 6 WEEKS. In spite of trying to police the
> printing (I try to keep an eye out for lyric printing, cheat codes,
> etc.), it is out of hand, though I admit that while I was doing the
> technology inventory my supervision level was way down. I bet I threw
> away a reem of paper yesterday that was "junk". I used to keep it as
> scratch paper, but there is too much of it.
>
> I am ready to disable the printers altogether and only allow printing
> of finished work. Maybe have students copy their work (internet
> articles & info) to disks and have them do all their work from the
> computer. In fact, out of frustration I just told about 6 kids I am not
> allowing any Internet printing, only finished work printing, and they
> all left!
>
> I brought this issue to my media/technology committee last fall, but no
> one had any ideas, and I was too new to this school to have a feel for
> where to go with this.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Sue Fox
> Media Specialist
> McEvoy Middle School
> Macon, GA
> sfox.mcevoy@bibb.k12.ga.us
>
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