Extra-wide shelves aren't the only shelves that have such a "dead zone."
Our home library shelves are eight inches deep, and I've had books fall
behind them, too.
Donna Williams
May '07 SLIS grad
University of North Texas
blaze4@attwb.net
> 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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