Hi~
In overseas schools, where annual student turnover rate can approach
30%, due to the mercurial nature of their parents’ jobs, we often receive
shopping bags filled with books this time of the year. Some of the books
are appropriate, some aren’t. (About now, when it is time to pack-up,
parents also take the opportunity to jettison some of their favorite—now,
often obsolete--college text books they have been carting around the world.
LOL)
When these donations are made in person, I tell the parent or student that
I am happy to accept and include in our middle school collection all of the
books we need. I tell them that I will pass on some of the others to ES &
HS libraries and that some books (VERY worn and/or obsolete—normal
candidates for weeding, were they in our present collection) will be
disposed of. Then I feel free to apply our standard selection policy to
determine what I will keep.
Best wishes for a happy summer,
Martin Swist
mswist@asij.ac.jp
Middle School LMS
The American School In Japan (ASIJ)
http://www.asij.ac.jp/middle/lib/index.html
1-1-1 Nomizu, Chofu-shi, Tokyo, 182 Japan
Telephone: 81 422 34 5300, extensions 295 & 296
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>Deliver us from well-meaning parents!
>
>One charming parent wants to hit the local Goodwill to buy children's
>books for the library!. Now, not that I don't do that myself for
>replacement copies of popular fiction, but...large scale, no. I explained
>to the principal all would have to be cataloged. "We could get someone."
>"No, not just 'someone' but a credentialed someone." Apparently she is
>working with several other schools in St. Paul as well as Rondo.
>
>Why don't we just get a budget to buy books?!
>
>Leslie
>
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>leslie.radloff@spps.org
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>560 Concordia Avenue
>St. Paul, MN 55103
>651.325.2777
>Fax: 651.325.2778
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