Re: [LM_NET] SEC: Countries, States and Presidents

[Guusje <guusje@MINDSPRING.COM>]

I'm elementary but I long ago stopped buying the country & state & president set 
books.  They were rarely used - maybe 1x a year at the most and often not that 
often (my teachers rarely do state reports).  The information that is in those sort 
books is easily found in of our databases or the internet in general.  I don't buy 
print encyclopedias either. 

My book budget is very small and a set of state books easily eats up 1/3 of it. 
I would rather allocate that money toward fiction which our kids will read till the 
book falls apart and non fiction books that they will read for pleasure. I get way  
more mileage by buying multiple copies of the "Fran" books than I ever will by 
buying a biography of every president. 

My collection is lopsided to the extreme - back when I went to library school 
collections were supposed to "balanced" - but the library is used and our reading 
scores are in the 90s.  We're a title one / ESL school so that's no small feat. 

Guusje Moore
Housman Elementary
Houston TX
guusje@mindspring.com 


-----Original Message-----
>From: Kay Goss <goss.kay@GMAIL.COM>
>Sent: Feb 18, 2010 2:25 PM
>To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>Subject: SEC: Countries, States and Presidents
>
>Dear Great and Wise Ones:
>
>I know we have discussed this in the past, but I did not see any recent
>posts in the archives.
>My sets on countries, states, and the presidents are seldom used but I hate
>to throw them out. New sets are so expensive.
>
>Are you buying up-to-date sets?
>Keeping the old sets?
>Weeding the sets from your collection? If so, are you replacing them with
>volumes that cover several states, etc. or not replacing them at all?
>
>Thanks so much.
>
>-- 
>Currently reading Stones into Schools by Greg Mortensen.
>
>Kay Goss
>Mansfield Secondary Library
>316 West Ohio Ave.
>Mansfield, Mo. 65704
>417-924-3236 Ext. 311
>goss.kay@gmail.com
>
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