We do several things here.
-- Periodically, we have a used book sale. Books sell for 25 cents
apiece.
-- I always give teachers first dibs on discarded materials.
-- Once, we let staff from another school, which had no books, pick
through and take whatever they thought they could use.
-- This year, we were contacted by a prison program that needed books
for incarcerated parents to read aloud to their children. They took it
all away in one swoop!
*Of course, I pitched anything that was truly offensive, misleading, or
just plain wrong. We are able to recycle the paper pages. Covers go
into the regular trash.
On Jan 27, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Kevin/Jeri Calcote wrote:
> If they are really old and outdated, I throw them away. Sometimes I
> put them
> on a cart in the teacher's lounge and let them pick, but I make sure
> the
> barcode and spine labels are marked out. That way they don't end up
> back on
> my shelf. At a previous school, you wouldn't believe how many discards
> I
> found on the shelf when we moved our collection into a new building.
> They
> had all been "given away" to teachers previously. I've also taken good
> condition books to a bookstore that gives trade credit. I can use that
> to
> purchase any of their used merchandise.
>
> Jeri Calcote
> District Library Media Specialist
> Poolville (Texas) I.S.D.
> calcote@cox-internet.com
>
>
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