- Original Post: When you recieve a current almanac, do you deselect past
issues? I have class sets of 2000, 2003, 2007, and now 2010. Should I
keep all on the shelves? Does the newest supercede the older titles?
- To provide some background – this is my first year teaching in the
library, I had been in first grade and before that k. I am in a library
that hasn’t been weeded in quite some time and the former librarian did a
wonderful job teaching students many skills using the almanac sets, though I
don’t know if that is a practice that I will definitely continue. There’s
just SO much great stuff to teach!! We are going through what you might
call “The Great Purge” J Thank you all for your wealth of knowledge and
excellent and clear responses!!!
- I think the new one should supercede the older ones. I'm surprised
they have held together since 2000. Mine always fall apart.
- I don't buy them every year, and when I get a new set, I move the next
newest to the regular shelves (rather than reference) so the kids can check
them out. They love them.
- I would keep the new set in the library for reference, keep a half
dozen at the most of the next newest set in the library for checkout, and
give the others away to the teachers in your building who want them or to a
charity. - - - BD
- used to keep 5 years of them
- I have only the current ones on the shelf in reference. I keep one year
before on the circulation shelf.
- It does in my library! I usually keep one copy of past issues for the
past 5 years or so for comparison purposes, but the class sets go out!
- That's up to you. Do you use the older issues? The older sets? Do
teachers? Do students? I don't find that they are used, so I don't keep
them, but your school might be different.
- I keep 1-2 each of older editions, and the previous class set. The
rest, I decommission them and offer to the classrooms. So, when I buy
the 2011 class set., I will keep the 2008 set I have and offer the 2006 set
(minus 1-2 copies) to the classrooms.
- I would only keep the most recent 2010 issue. I might keep one from
each of the preceding years, just so when I'm doing a lesson I can
demonstrate how information can "get old". For instance I might say
"let's look up the population of China in 2000. Now let's look it up on
2004," etc. But the lesson would also discuss "is the 2010 almanac's
information completely trustworthy when it comes to reporting China's
current population?" Why or why not? Then I would definitely try to
find an online source for China's population and compare that too. Some
people don't think teaching the almanac is useful at all anymore. I'm
conflicted, but when I teach it I explain how I used to think it was the
scariest book in the library - look at how tiny the print is! It's too hard
to read! How do you find anything in here! but now that i know how to
use nonfiction book tools, like the index and table of contents I can find
anything I need to in the almanac! I give the kids little prizes for
finding information in it.
- I keep a couple of sets, so I can have one and a teacher or two can
check out a set.
- I don't get class sets, so my practice is a bit different than yours. I
buy a new almanac every year. The newest one is in REF, the rest circulate.
When I get the new one, I have to change the record for the old one, but
that doesn't take much work.
- I keep one copy of each of the older titles and find a classroom
teacher who would like the older set to use in his/her classroom.
--
Ellen Zschunke, School Library Media Specialist
Pine Road Elementary School, Lower Moreland Township School District
3737 Pine Road, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
ontheshelf4kids@gmail.com
http://ontheshelf4kids.blogspot.com
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