Ron and others,
I was wondering about some books that have been missing (some for two
years!) and mentioned it to a teacher who was chatting with me while I was
scanning for inventory. She replied, "Well, there's a book that's fallen
down behind the others on that shelf." Sure enough, it was one that was
missing! I then went from shelf to shelf and found about 5 more books, two
that had been missing for more than a year! I'm glad I didn't eliminate them
from the database!
My (horrible, unadjustable, but very sturdy) shelves were built extra-deep
to house text books or equipment, not library books. At some point the
school put in 2" high strips of wood to prevent books from going too far
back, but this left an open gap about 10" deep behind the front part of the
shelf. Books can still tip over and fall into this "dead zone" and when the
shelf is full, you can't see them. Since I have a portable scanner gun this
year (and lovin' it!) I am only "tipping" the books to do inventory, not
pulling everything off the shelf, so I have missed the fallen books. Ron,
you might try looking behind the books to see if anything has fallen behind
- it can happen even with regular shelving.
Joanne Ladewig (A.K.A. "Library Lady")
Library Media Tech
Lawrence Elementary, GGUSD
Garden Grove, California
shatz@verizon.net
Comments are my own and may not represent the views of GGUSD
I'm down to "only" 225 books missing out of 12000. This is on top of about
400
others that are listed as missing from previous years. Besides swearing
under your
breath about "kids these days" (my previous posts about being more patient
this
year notwithstanding), at what point do you give up and figure there's
nothing you
can do about it? With 680 kids in an elementary school, I'd have to figure
I'd
lose a few over the course of the year, right?
On a humorous (kinda) sidenote, one of the stolen books was my only copy of
Higher
Power of Lucky. It's surprising because everyone I tried to get to read it
refused
or gave up after a chapter or two; only my local klepto wanted it!
Ron Wagner
Teacher-Librarian
Felida Elementary School
Vancouver, WA
ron.wagner@vansd.org
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