Re: [LM_NET] preparation for next year - Betty's library survival packets

["Betty Winslow, BGCA" <bgcalib@WCNET.ORG>]

Since I've already gotten several requests for a list of what I include in
my survival packets, I thought I'd post it to the list.

Here is the list:
Introductory letter

Dewey Decimal bookmark or other cool bookmark

A punched-out Ellison shape w/attached list of shapes available at various
locations and use information [I include ours as well as two local libraries
that allow us to use theirs]

A list of available teacher resources (magazines, titles from book shelf,
etc.)

A list of student and teacher magazines BGCA subscribes to

A list of study guides available through the library

A teacher magazine routing slip

A research project sheet

A teacher book reserve form

A teacher survey

Information about local public and university library use

List of equipment that can be borrowed from library (long stapler, chart
easel, step ladder, footstools, globe, map)

Information about original art in library

Library use procedure manual - teachers

Library use procedure manual - students

Library map

Mrs. Winslow's library laws

Renewal slip master

Video tape list

Audio tape/CD list

Caught You Being Good slip

(occasionally, I also stick in small gag gifts, hand-outs of interesting
information, workshops I'll be teaching that year and where, and other
one-time-only items.)



Giving these packets out every year helps me tremendously,
since even longtime teachers forget policies, lose their stuff, etc. Plus,
I'm always worried that I'll forget to tell the people who need to know,
when I change something. So, everyone gets a new packet each year (in a
brightly colored pocketed folder, so they can spot it on their shelves or
desk under mounds of other stuff), and each teacher who reads through EVERY
SINGLE ITEM in the folder before the end of the first week of school and
turns in a signed "Caught You Being Good" slip to that effect gets a prize
(a book, candy, a free pizza slip, whatever I can get donated to give them).

It's redundant, but it's drastically cut the number of questions I've had to
answer that started, "Hey, Betty, how am I supposed to..."  or "Hey, do we
have..." and ended with me saying, "Well, in the forms I gave you at the
beginning of the year, there's a form, and in the teacher library use guide,
it says... Oh, you don't know where yours is? You didn't even read it yet?"
<gnashing of teeth>

Betty Winslow, Media Center Director
BGCA
Bowling Green, OH
bgcalib@wcnet.org

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