True confession!!!
As a kid we were very heavy library users. I was taught to keep all of
my library books in the same place atop some drawers in my bedroom.
Somewhere along the line(I think I might have been in the second grade)
we got an overdue notice for Oxygen Keeps Us Alive, a book that we KNEW
we returned. The librarians knew us as pretty reliable patrons so they
marked the book "Claimed returned" and didn't charge us (which was very
kind because we didn't have much money). About 20 years later, I was
moving some furniture in my mom's house and behind the set of drawers
.. Oxygen Keeps Us Alive, with a due date in 1972 ... GAH!!!!
My permanent record has never recovered and ... the shame ... oh, the
shame ... :-)
Oxygen, indeed, keeps me alive, but a whole bunch of nice public and
school librarians shared books with me that made my childhood worth
living and made my world a lot richer than it ever could or would have
been.
So if you're a school librarian in Hawaii or you work in the Hawaii
State Public Library system, THANK YOU!!!
dave (who still feels bad that other kids didn't get to learn about
oxygen ... sigh ...)
Dave Wee, Librarian
Harvard-Westlake Middle School
700 North Faring Road
Los Angeles, California 90077
Phone -- (310) 288-3270
E-mail -- dwee @ hw dot com
"You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where
people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of
employing wild animals as librarians."
~~ Monty Python ~~
-----Original Message-----
From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Solo
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 9:00 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] I Got Smoked! And, can I rent this book?
Actually, I do take books in lieu of lost items, or even fines. But it
has to be something we can use, in good shape and suitable for
circulation. I get extra copies of the Twilight series, books by P.C.
Cast and Meg Cabot, etc, but I reserve the right to choose what we take
and what it's worth to us.
Susan Solo
Library Media Center
Grass Lake High School
Grass Lake, MI 49240
solo@grasslakeschools.com
"Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary
and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's
invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting
and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything
invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of
things."
-Douglas Adams
>>> "Thomas, Kim" <Kim.Thomas@USD453.ORG> 5/21/2009 9:35 am >>>
Something I've puzzled over this year that just now makes sense in light
of comments in this thread: Numerous high-school students, when faced
with a possibly lost book, have asked if they could "trade" one of their
personal books from home for the title that was lost. That was a new
one on me, but now I'm wondering if it ties in with patronage of those
business that allow gamers to trade in used video games on new ones.
"Oh, the times, they are a-changin'. . ."
Kim
L. Kim Thomas
Library Media Specialist
Leavenworth High School
Leavenworth, KS 66048
913.684.1550, ext. 106
Kim.Thomas@usd453.org
"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."
Mortimer J.
Adler
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