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Since I've already gotten several requests for a list of what I include in my survival packets, I thought I'd post it to the list. Here is the list: Introductory letter Dewey Decimal bookmark or other cool bookmark A punched-out Ellison shape w/attached list of shapes available at various locations and use information [I include ours as well as two local libraries that allow us to use theirs] A list of available teacher resources (magazines, titles from book shelf, etc.) A list of student and teacher magazines BGCA subscribes to A list of study guides available through the library A teacher magazine routing slip A research project sheet A teacher book reserve form A teacher survey Information about local public and university library use List of equipment that can be borrowed from library (long stapler, chart easel, step ladder, footstools, globe, map) Information about original art in library Library use procedure manual - teachers Library use procedure manual - students Library map Mrs. Winslow's library laws Renewal slip master Video tape list Audio tape/CD list Caught You Being Good slip (occasionally, I also stick in small gag gifts, hand-outs of interesting information, workshops I'll be teaching that year and where, and other one-time-only items.) Giving these packets out every year helps me tremendously, since even longtime teachers forget policies, lose their stuff, etc. Plus, I'm always worried that I'll forget to tell the people who need to know, when I change something. So, everyone gets a new packet each year (in a brightly colored pocketed folder, so they can spot it on their shelves or desk under mounds of other stuff), and each teacher who reads through EVERY SINGLE ITEM in the folder before the end of the first week of school and turns in a signed "Caught You Being Good" slip to that effect gets a prize (a book, candy, a free pizza slip, whatever I can get donated to give them). It's redundant, but it's drastically cut the number of questions I've had to answer that started, "Hey, Betty, how am I supposed to..." or "Hey, do we have..." and ended with me saying, "Well, in the forms I gave you at the beginning of the year, there's a form, and in the teacher library use guide, it says... Oh, you don't know where yours is? You didn't even read it yet?" <gnashing of teeth> Betty Winslow, Media Center Director BGCA Bowling Green, OH bgcalib@wcnet.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/sub/ LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------