[LM_NET] TAR: Lost Classroom Books

[Holly Gillum <exlibrishg@YAHOO.COM>]

Good Morning All!
 
I have a dilemma and need your expert advice.  My school serves grades 1-4.  We 
have an on-again-off-again AR program.  Our students check out books weekly (and 
rotate in when we have free time.)  In addition, we check out class sets of books 
to teachers for students to read when there is extra time.  
 
What do you do when teachers "lose" these books?  Many times, students take them 
home and just don't return them.  They are wise enough to know they aren't checked 
out to them, so there are no consequences for not returning the books.  I made a 
student classroom check-out list to keep on a clipboard that had the students enter 
their name, and barcode number for the classroom books, but the teachers complained 
it was too much trouble.  
 
So.  What do I do?  When I took over this library 2 years ago, teachers had "lost" 
a total of 52 titles the previous year.  What makes it even worse, is that most of 
these titles are AR books that need to be replaced, as now we have a test, but no 
book.  My principal doesn't want to make the teachers pay for them - so right now, 
I'm just losing books left and right.  It's taking a chunk of my budget to replace 
these titles, and I feel like I'm not able to get ahead.  Students are turning 
their books in this week and I'm beginning to generate the "still-out" lists for 
teachers and students.  I'd love to be able to take something to my principal to 
help share the responsibility/accountability for this problem.  It may not help me 
this year, but it could next year.  Words of wisdom...anyone?       hg

Holly Gillum, LMS
Anderson Elementary
Crossett, AR 71635
exlibrishg@yahoo.com
 
"Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are."  ~Mason 
Cooley


      

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