I am wondering what some of you do who have move outs who take library books
with them. Does anyone have a form letter that they send to the student's
new school? We are a small school district and we are having problems with
students who move out and do not check in their books before moving out.
Jean Pacheco
Elementary Media Specialist
Sparta Elementary School
Sparta, Missouri 65753
jpacheco44@hotmail.com
>From: Paul Birkby <Paul_Birkby@PENFIELD.MONROE.EDU>
>Reply-To: Paul_Birkby@PENFIELD.MONROE.EDU
>To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>Subject: SEC: Help with HS Fiction Collection - Weeding "The Classics" -
>Long
>Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:21:34 -0500
>
>I've inherited an aged fiction collection. I based on the analysis I ran,
>my guesstimate is that about half the collection hasn't gone out in the
>last five years. While need titles have been added through the years, but
>there are many aged titles that make the collection less than ascetically
>pleasing, hiding the new title. I'm still trying figure out if there are
>school-cultural reasons why fiction isn't used much.
>
>I want to make the collection look more appealing by weeding the old
>editions, tattled paperbacks, non-moving titles. There are a number of
>authors who I've very loosely categorized into 4 categories. (NONE of
>these authors' books have gone out in the last 5 years.)
>
>"Classics" - e.g.,Pearl Buck, Willa Cather, JF Cooper, Daniel Defoe,
>Faulkner, Hardy, Edna Ferber, James Joyce, Sinclair Lewis, Steinbeck,
>Eudora Welty, etc.
>
>"Authors that the culturally literate should read" - James Agee, Lloyd
>Alexander, James Baldwin, Pierre Boulle, Tony Hillerman, Ursala LaGuin,
>Madeleine L'Engle, Carson McCullers, James Michener, Herman Wouk (am I
>showing my age regarding the need to read these authors?);
>
>"Oldie but goodie (?) YA," authors (many were the core of my YA lit course
>XXXX years ago), but haven't circulated in years. Is it merely because the
>copies we have are old and unappealing or have they become dated and
>uninteresting to today's YA reader? Authors like Joan Aiken, Alice Bach,
>Ernesto Bethancourt, Robin Brancato, James Lincoln Collier, SE Hinton, ME
>Kerr, the Mazurs, Richard Peck, Robert Newton Peck, Leonard Wibberley,
>Lawrence Yep.
>
>My question, and I do have one, knowing that the musty, dusty books are
>never going out, when I weed them, does anyone have some advice on deciding
>what I should replace with new copies, hoping that pretty new books will go
>out and I don't have to replace (e.g., Is any high school student ever
>going to read Saratoga Truck?) I do use the typical collection development
>tools, High School Catalog, Follet's Core HS Collections, etc.
>
>Thanks for patiently slogging through my rambling and thanks in advance for
>any advice,
>Paul
>
>***********************
>Paul D. Birkby
>Media Specialist
>Penfield High School
>25 High School Drive
>Penfield, NY 14526
>
>Paul_Birkby@penfield.monroe.edu
>
>The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change,
>the realist adjusts the sails. -William Arthur Ward, college administrator,
>writer (1921-1994)
>
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