This is my first year as a librarian and I discovered that we had some few
teachers who helped themselves to anything they wanted . . . power strips, cables,
laptops and lcd projectors . . . you name it, it walked off and, in the case of one
laptop, didn't come back. Most of the keys in our building are masters of one sort
or another, so keeping things under lock and key was a problem.
So . . . without asking anyone (amazing what you can get away with your first year)
I went to Lowes and bought a $20 double cylinder deadbolt lock set and put it on
the back room where all the goodies live. I already had five keys cut: 1 for me, 3
for the admins and one for the district maintenance head who has to have access to
everything for audits. The janitor didn't get one and didn't want one, so no one
can bug him and all my stuff stays safe. The maintenance head even gave me a pat on
the back for knowing to include him in the key giveaway and no one has complained
at all.
Shannon D. Wham, Librarian
Bell Street MS
600 Peachtree St.
Clinton, SC 29325
sdwham@laurens56.k12.sc.us
sdeanwham@charter.net
"Id temporis consilium bonum videbatur"
---- Ann Marie Gordon <agordon@LIVONIACSD.ORG> wrote:
> I think this is probably a universal problem. I still remember discovering one
>day that we were missing all the Tomie DePaola books. Every single one. A
>teacher needed them RIGHT AWAY, and got a custodian to let her into the library in
>the morning, and was in too much of a hurry to leave a note. (One of those cases
>where her lack of planning became my emergency.) The books did eventually come
>back, thank goodness.
>
> It's my reason for barcoding absolutely EVERYTHING. The teachers thought I was
>nuts, barcoding remotes, extension cords, VHS-C adaptors, battery rechargers, USB
>cables...but now I actually know who borrowed it a week ago, "just for a minute."
>A teacher borrowed a 3-hole paper punch from me, and asked me if I wanted to stick
>a barcode on before she took it!
>
> Moving stuff sometimes helps, too. We had our digital cameras and flash drives
>in a cupboard in the library office, and we noticed a developing trend of people
>helping themselves to the materials without stopping at the circulation desk. So
>we moved all the stuff to a different cupboard, so the staff will have to ask for
>the materials again, at least for a little while.
>
>
>
> Anne-Marie Gordon, Librarian
> Livonia Primary School
> Livonia, NY
> agordon@livoniacsd.org
> http://www.livoniacsd.org/primaryschool/gordon/index.htm
>
> "So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray,
> Go throw your TV set away,
> And in its place you can install,
> A lovely bookshelf on the wall."
>
> * Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
>
> >>> Robin Shtulman <shtulman@ERVING.COM> 05/02/06 2:47 PM >>>
> Hello, sympathetic ear:
>
> I don't need advice -- just a place to vent without making my
> colleagues crazy.
> How can we convince our otherwise wonderful classroom staff that they
> must sign out library materials? How many times have I heard 'Oh,
> I'm just taking this to my room for a minute' and the item is never
> seen again? Everyone thinks he or she is soooo responsible and will
> not forget. Each and every one means well.
> Sigh.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Robin Shtulman
> Erving Elementary School
> 28 Northfield Rd.
> Erving, MA 01344
> 413-423-3326
> shtulman@erving.com
> http://www.erving.com/library/erving_library.htm
>
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