Re: [LM_NET] Gen:Inventory books unmarked / missing

[Walt & Sharon Koontz <koontzw@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

LM_netters:  This is a quite interesting topic to me, because even after 17 years 
of library experience I am constantly amazed at the places I will find 'lost' 
books.  I have learned to look behind all shelved books for the ones that get 
shoved behind.  I also keep an eye open for books that have 'swallowed' other books 
(I think my students get in a hurry to push a book back on the shelve and force it 
around another.  I have learned to take a yardstick and sweep in under all shelves 
that have even the tiniest space above the floor.  BUT the topper was the fake wall 
I have behind the easy books in the elementary.  We have a gravity-feed heating 
system, so the entire length of the library has heater vents above this 3' high by 
8" deep dead space. Some type of fiber board was used on these and the shelves were 
built in front of them. The fiber board had deteriorated (probably with the help of 
the over active book-shovers!) and actually broke through in several places.  I
 discovered this a couple of summers ago when working on inventory. I pulled about 
150 books out of the spaces.... many predated my 1989 automation of the library!  

This summer I had 20-25 books stacked nicely in my high school book drop (meaning 
they weren't dropped in, but someone  with a key entered and placed them there.  
They were all the Billie Letts, Sue Monk Kidd and Nancy Turner books, I think 
Memoirs of a Geisha was in the stack too.  I had looked for these throughout the 
year... several students had reserves on the titles, so I knew they were gone and 
had my eye out for them.  It had to have been an adult (I suspect administration, 
as they along with coaches have master keys.... and surely it wouldn't have been 
the coaches!!!!) Thank goodness I don't have to order replacements!!
 
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Sharon Koontz, K-12 LMS
USD 286, Sedan KS 
koontzs@usd286-sedan-ks.org

"I'm not organizationally-challenged, I'm chaotically-gifted!"--unknown
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe
with fur. -Doug Larson, Olympic Gold Medalist (1902-1981)
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