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Dear Terri
In my opinion, housing these sorts of readers in the library is a huge mistake 
simply from the administration perspective.  If you have to process and circulate 
these titles every day, then your day will be swallowed up, not to mention your 
shelf space.

After I retired, an uninformed principal decided the library was the best place for 
these and the clerical assistant spend hundreds and hundreds of hours processing 
all the books.  (I was not replaced and she didn't have enough clout to argue 
against it.)  Circulation and stocktake were an absolute nightmare. 

Before this principal, and in many other schools the administration of these 
take-home readers was undertaken either by a parent volunteer (for the new 
entrants) and the children themselves by the time they were in Year 1 or 2. In the 
time it takes the child to come to the library, return the book, choose another, 
borrow it and return to class will take more time than the few minutes spent 
reading it.  And that is usually every day, so there goes over an hour a week that 
could have been spent reading in class and not at home.
Barbara

Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
COOMA NSW 2630
E.barbara.288@bigpond.com
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