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I have battled this problem for a while. I moved the printer behind the
circulation desk, so students have to come to the desk to pick up their
printouts. While this has not totally fixed the problem, it has helped
considerably and it does allow me to more easily isolate the culprits.



Marsha Redd
Librarian, Kelloggsville High School
Grand Rapids, MI
marsharedd@hotmail.com
Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone is a student.
Everyone is a teacher.


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From: Sue Fox <sfox.Mcevoy@BIBB.K12.GA.US>
Reply-To: Sue Fox <sfox.Mcevoy@BIBB.K12.GA.US>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: [LM_NET] TECH:  Printing Policies
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 08:37:00 -0500

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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