And then there is the case of a book inside a book! It is
particularly annoying when the missing book is really thin and gets
'eaten' by it's neighbor!
I am particularly pleased with inventory this year...had only 23
unaccounted for! YEAH! There does come a time when you have to purge
those that have disappeared and if for some reason they miraculously
reappear, they just add them back to the catalog. I had one book on
flags returned this spring that had been missing for 2 years!
Happy Summer! I am off to clean out my sewing room!
****************************
Barb Engvall
=^..^=
Teacher-Librarian
John Campbell Elem
Selah, WA
http://www.selah.k12.wa.us/JC/jc.cfm
bengvall@mac.com
On Jun 21, 2007, at 6:50 PM, Donna Williams wrote:
> 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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