Practically speaking, given that you may have little control over what happens in
the specific situation in the original post, one thing to consider would be to talk
w/ your principal about dealing with overdue and lost/damaged books. Can you get a
liason at the private school to handle those issues? Can you get the private
school to agree to cover losses or are you going to be responsible for squeezing
parents whose students don't even attend your school? Are we talking about
frequent checkout, like weekly, for the entire private school student body or
supplementing what they have in their collection periodically? If you are going to
have weekly checkout than in reality that is going to decrease service to the
students in your school unless your library is very atypical in its overabundance
of resources. If students have to wait 6 weeks instead of 3 to get the new Lemony
Snicket or Harry Potter or Guinness book, then that is somewhat of a problem when
it comes to meeting your patrons' needs.
I think that most of us wouldn't have a problem w/ some usage of the school library
by a private school, the question is how much is too much? When does this
'helping' reach the level of causing a negative impact to our students and
teachers? Or do we simply accept the situation and include the students/teachers
at the private school as part of our pool of patrons?
The varied views on this topic have been interesting. Thanks for sharing your
opinions.
Jennifer Davidson
jdavidson@solomon393.k12.ks.us
Library Media Specialist
Solomon Elementary
Solomon, KS
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