Re: [LM_NET] vent

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@FWCDS.ORG>]

One more note to this---

I mentioned to Maureen that Scholastic usually offers a BOGO (buy one get one free) 
bookfair at the end of the school year.  This allows the students "one more chance" 
to get a book that they missed during the first book fair---and it helps Scholastic 
to reduce their warehouse holdings.  When the kids buy a book, one is donated to 
the school we've adopted to share the books with.

MY next step to this community service project ---as we all know this is one of the 
bigger issues--- is to download copies of all of the MARC records that we own for 
these books (since many of the books are copies that we purchased at an earlier 
bookfair and cataloged in January) then send the records with the books.  Since 
most of these schools are supervised by part-time staffs or non-certified 
individuals who don't catalog (or the school that can't afford cataloging), this is 
the component that will help move the books to the hands of the kids even faster!

We offer community service projects during the year for our students, and our staff 
is often involved in these activities.  One such activity involves working with 
libraries (usually public libraries), but I'd be interested in polling nearby 
schools that need "cataloging" done in their libraries (due to lack of staff or NO 
staff) and spend my community service time working to help these people learn how 
to access catalog records, learn how to tweak catalog records that they find so 
they can be adjusted to their holdings, and how to work more efficiently using 
their online catalogs.

While there are opportunities and online catalogs available for many who do copy 
cataloging, we have to remember that for many school libraries, the staff is not 
aware of these access points or don't have Internet options to download the 
records.  I think it would be a great opportunity to share "more than books" for 
those schools who DO have titles and an automated catalog but don't have the staff 
to do original (or copy) cataloging.


Just some thoughts~

~Shonda




Shonda Brisco, MLIS
US / Technology Librarian
4200 Country Day Lane
Fort Worth Country Day School
Fort Worth, TX
817.732.7718 ext. 339

"We can't wait for somebody outside of ourselves to rescue us, because nobody is 
coming to the rescue..." 
 ~ Ross Todd, Professor
School of Communications, Information, and Library Studies, Rutgers University

sbrisco@fwcds.org
http://www.fwcds.org/campus/libraries/default.asp

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