Hello all,
When weeding books you will invariably have someone come by who
questions your decisions. My pat answer for nonfiction books is "I want
kids to be smarter when they leave the library than when they came into
it. There books have misinformation that won't help our students."
For fiction books(People hate to see you get rid of their favorites),
"Please take the book, you have a relationship with that story that will
let you share it with students in a way that no one else does."
Both lines allow me to finish what I am doing and let the teachers know
that I am not just getting rid of books to make more room.
As a rural school district we get more than our fair share of books that
other school districts weed and send to us to "help" our collections.
My favorite was a book that I talked to my husband about when I was at
one school. Racist information about Eskimo children, nice information
but patronizing. My husband said he remembered reading that book when
he was in school. The next school I went to had the same book. I
weeded it and brought it home to him when I realized that it had been
discarded by his elementary school and sent to one in my district.
Have a great week all,
Darla
Darla Grediagin
District Librarian
Bering Strait School District
Unalakleet, Alaska
Web Address : http://bssdonline.org/course/view.php?id=51
Blog: http://aklibrarian1.edublogs.org/
-- Lynn Foltz wrote:
>Hello, all,
>
>
>I have been enjoying using Less is More: A Practical Guide to Weeding School
>Library Collections by Donna J. Baumbach and Linda L. Miller, the wonderful
>Sunlink folks. They quote Gail Dickinson, from "Crying Over Spilled Milk":
>
>
>
>"The milk in the refrigerator is past the sell date, has an odor, and is curdled
>and lumpy. Would you:
>
>
>
>Keep it, because you don't know when you could get to the store to buy more? Then
>why would you keep a book on the shelf with misinformation because you don't know
>when you could replace it?
>
>
>
>Keep it, because otherwise your refrigerator would look empty? Then why would you
>keep outdated books on the shelf to preserve a fake collection size?
>
>
>
>Give it to a neighbor to keep in his or her refrigerator? Then why would you send
>outdated encyclopedias or other materials to a teacher for classroom use?
>
>
>
>Donate it to a food pantry for hungry children? Then why would you send outdated
>resources to be used by children in this or other countries?"
>
>
>
>Unless you are going to go through the set and retain only the information that is
>still valid, I would make the set into furniture.
>
>
>
>Lynn Foltz, Upper School Librarian
>
>Sanford School
>Hockessin, DE
>foltzl@sanfordschool.org
>
>________________________________
>
>From: School Library Media & Network Communications on behalf of Cinnamon Cripe
>Sent: Sat 11/4/2006 2:28 AM
>To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>Subject: [LM_NET] Donations of old encyclopedias [heur]
>
>
>
>Hello
>
> What would you do with a donation of encyclopedias that are in good condition
>with a copyright date of 1983? I feel they are too old to add to our collection,
>but on the other hand some of the information in them is still accurate.
>
> What would you do?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Cinnamon
>
>
>
>Cinnamon Cripe
> Librarian
> Al Sahwa Schools
> Muscat, Oman
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