I work with tech and switch off computer accounts for overdue books. Works better
than anything.
You need staff buy-in. Especially helpful if you're also responsible for texts (we
are.)
Always point out to admin and staff the $ signs. ("We're owed $3200 worth of school
materials.") Don't say "library books" or no one will care. When, say, a history
teacher, complains of denied computer access for a student--say "$1000 of those
materials are SS books."
Want kids to rocket to your desk with ovd materials? Switch off the internet.
By the way--my favorite line? "Its in my locker. DO YOU WANT ME TO GO GET IT?"
Yes, miss. After the printed bulletin, the notice over the loudspeaker, the mailed
bill, the marching band, the skywriter, the carved marble tablet, the morning
wake-up call, the conversation with your mom and the face-to-face conversation
we're having RIGHT NOW, I'd like you to walk ALL THE WAY to your locker and get the
book that's been due since October 1st.
"Right now?"
Have a great day.
Harry
Harry F. Coffill
hcoffill@egrps.org
Teacher-Librarian
East Grand Rapids Middle School
Drama Department
East Grand Rapids High School
"From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in
future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed
when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out. We are cups,
constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over
and let the beautiful stuff out."
-Ray Bradbury
>>> On 2/24/2010 at 4:06 PM, in message
><1653.205.155.32.123.1267045563.squirrel@webmail.redshift.com>, Gayle Hodur
><ghodur@REDSHIFT.COM> wrote:
In the ongoing quest to retrieve my wandering books I want to ask if you
have any tried and true methods for getting back books that are vastly
overdue.
I speak to the student each week at checkout and print a bill or reminder
slip for them and still I get no action. I'm always nice about it. Maybe I
should be meaner, but I know for a fact that most of my students won't go
to the public library because they owe books over there and are afraid of
the staff. I just let them know how important that book is to our
collection.
Am I doing it wrong, or is it like that all over?
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