[LM_NET] Running on empty

[Johanna Halbeisen <JH@NEWSONGLIBRARY.ORG>]

Dear Netters,.
I've been spoiled.  Or at least that's how it feels now.  For a 
number of years, and up until last year, I had an incredible 
volunteer who took all the books with no processing home and covered 
both dust jackets and paperbacks.  And I had volunteers for most of 
the classes, sometimes two at a time, so one could do other book 
processing jobs.  Now not only do I have any regular volunteers who 
can do the book processing part, I have very few volunteers period. 
As many as half my classes have no volunteer, so I need to do 
check-in and check-out and end the day with the return cart full to 
bursting.

So I have three shelves packed with books that need processing and 
will not get onto the shelves this year.  Here's the question: 
Should I give up on quality processing (as in covering the paperbacks 
with laminate), and just cover the barcode and spine label and put 
them on the shelves?  IN this scenario, what would be a fast way to 
do the ones with dust jackets?  (I've already taken off the dust 
jackets of the books with the same front cover as the dust jacket.)

We are also desperate for substitutes.  I was out last week and it 
seems they had to have teacher aides covering for me.

All suggestions and comments welcomed.
Johanna
-- 
Johanna Halbeisen, Library Media Teacher
Woodland Elementary School (K-4)
80 Powder Mill Rd, Southwick, MA 01077
JH@newsonglibrary.org
Inspiration only knocks.  Some writers expect it to break down the 
door and pull them out of bed.  - Leonard S. Bernstein

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