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Thank you for your replies. Most people responded about the National Geographics and didn't say much about the American Heritage. It seems that most of you all can definitely deal without the Nat'l Geos. Here are the replies I received. Thank you! Lisa Gonzalez Notre Dame High School Salinas, CA "I am in a middle school and got rid of mine last year; I gave them to the teachers who wanted them for their classroom. I have not yet regretted it." "I found this idea on this listserv last year. Announce that you are needing to get rid of some National Geographic because of space. Ask if anyone would like to have a special volume to commemorate the year they were born or anniversary or other special event. Many people came and took the volume for the date they were born and I was left with just a few volumes that needed to be trashed." "go to www.nationalgeographic.com/publications/explore.html" "If you have the ones with COKE ads on the back - collectors are paying about $3 a piece for those!" "I had the same problem. I sent an email to all the teachers in my building and got a great reponse indicating that they would love to have them. I still have many more left, but will probably end up giving those away also to teachers." "I wouldn't get rid of them. The index is available at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/publications/explore.html" "I have found these to be occasionally useful, for humanities, art, and history classes. Recently I had a class doing research on ancient Greece and the teacher required that they have at least one print reference. Fortunately I could find an article about Troy from about 20 years ago. If I have a duplicate copy I sometimes let the student have the magazine and cut it up, but only if I have more than 2 copies." "When I was faced with a donation of years & years of National Geographics, I offered them to the teachers in the Social Studies department who took them eagerly." "National Geographic index is available at no cost on line." "We have a complete run of both, they are used a great deal, we have the indexes. We find that nothing is used unless it is indexed." "I know what you mean. We had the same problem. Finally I told our art teacher I was discarding the Nat. Geos but she wanted them. One of our history teachers wanted the old Am. Her. I'm not sure what happened to them after they left the media center, but I felt a little better than just dumping them." "An 8th grade LA teacher last year got the kids to read the long, narrative nonfication articles in the last fifteen years of National Geo (not the bound ones). They read and journaled initially, and then she had them choose a nonfiction book to read based on one of the long articles they'd read. They did a multi-genre project based on this book (forms of writing: expository, letter, journalistic, poem, etc.)" "I dumped all but the last 10 years of National Geographics last year without one complaint. I did survey my teachers and only one objected to my doing this, But when I asked him if he was going to use them with his classes he hemmed and haad and said no. I then asked him why I should keep them then. NO answer. After a minute he had to admit it was an emotional reaction from childhood because he had always had a collection of NG at home andcouldn't imagine a world without NG! I had them back to 1921!!!" "Lisa, toss them, or use them as prizes for giveaways, or see if some other group would like them. If you toss them, contact recyclers and see if you can be paid by weight for them. One thing, remove and save the maps. You'll have an invaluable archive for history lessons. Or, use them as prizes and giveaways. Students, and some parents, may like to take an issue for the month and year they were born. The full text is available in online databases, and on dvd or cdrom from Nat Geo. American heritage would go the same route. Space is too valuable to be taken up by items that no one uses. Of course, the week or month after you get rid of them, a teacher will come looking for them for a special project. <grin>." "The National Geographic index used to be on-line. Last school I was at, one of the paras created records for American Heritage, put in subject headings and they were used when they came up in a subject search. I dont have them at this school and dont miss them." -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. 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