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I, too deal with this issue and want a group-wide response.
I am a K-5 librarian who shares a library (fairly large, but echoing
space), with a 6-12 librarian.  She is very easy to work with, but we
have classes that cross over and it is very difficult to keep students
quiet and attentive with the loudness commotion on the other side.

Also, what does a librarian do TO the children when they talk?
*honor codes

We have them once a week, and have a difficult time following up on
punishment for not hushing during a FIXED amount of time...

HELP !!!

Kelly Kelsoe
Elementary Library Media Specialist
Clements High School
Athens, AL 35611
Phone:(256) 729-6564 Ext. 329
Fax:(256) 729-1029
kelly.kelsoe@lcsk12.org

"What a school thinks about its library, is a measure of what it
thinks
about education." Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education

>>> Cindy <cbtn@BELLSOUTH.NET> 8/30/2006 9:06 pm >>>
This is my second year as a librarian in a primary school. I can keep
the
children's attention during lessons, but as soon as book checkout
begins,
they begin talking too loudly. I tell them to stop, and they stop for a
few
seconds then start back in again. I've had them sit at the desks with
their
heads down for a few minutes, but they begin again as soon as they
start
looking for books again. I've even given them tickets to have recess
time
taken away from them. Nothing seems to work. I can hardly wait until
the
children find their books and check them out so they will quiet down.
I
usually have to check the books out and help the children find books at
the
same time. It is just difficult doing two things at once, plus watching
all
the other children while I am helping one child or checking out books
for
another.

What do the rest of you do to maintain quiet in the library during
check out
time? I don't mind whispering, but it gets so loud that I can't hear
the
children's names so that I can check out their books. To top it off
there is
a wall air conditioner running behind the circulation desk. I keep
turning
it on and off so that I can hear and try to keep it cool in the
library. I'm
not hard of hearing. In fact my hearing is very sensitive, which
probably
makes the problem worse for me. It's like fingernails on a black
board.

I would think it was just me, but teachers who visit the library have
also
told them to quiet down.

Any suggestions, please. Probably there are some out there who have no
problems with this. So please be kind and tell me how you do it.

Cindra Boring

Librarian

Madisonville Primary School

Madisonville, TN

cbtn@bellsouth.net 

 


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