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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 Together, we learn from each other -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ * LM_NET Wiki: http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------