Re: [LM_NET] vent

[JaKay Greer <jakay_greer@GBSD.GRESHAM.K12.OR.US>]

The old adage is still true---what is one man's junk is another man's treasure. 

I also go looking for OLD battered books for my personal collection. I am a civil 
war reenactor. From the style of writing, the thoughts of how people felt about 
their time comes through. Or what they thought was entertainment. 

Books that I have donated out of my schools have still had value. They were no 
longer needed for my collection (ie: too many copies, no longer being read, etc) 
but another school could use them.  Textbooks that I have sent overseas have tended 
to be
the textbooks that were part of an adoption preview and the publishers did not want 
them back. I don't want them, the teachers don't want them, but they are new books. 

I agree--old junk should not be sent to another place without the other location 
having a choice of turning them down.   BUT, I do know of an overseas school that 
willingly takes the oldest of the old, because they are free, and their students can
practice English with them. Because of the climate and humditity, the books do not 
last long. 

I think the pride issue is an important issue to discuss. And from Taylor's book 
the person did not go far enough, read on to the mother's actions. She refused to 
let pride stand in the way of using books--even the one's no longer considered
functional at a different school. She still thought they had some value.

But also, I will CHOOSE which books to send out and which to pitch in the recycler. 
Not all weeded books have the same value.

JaKay Greer
Teacher-Librarian
Damascus MS & McCarty MS
website:  http://damascus.gresham.k12.or.us/~greer
Gresham, OR
jakay_greer@gbsd.gresham.k12.or.us

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