[ISLMA-Share] Weeding ?

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I rely heavily on the database, ABC-CLIO World Geography. It is $500.00 a
year but is completely up to date for those country projects my students
all have to do.

Lorna Code
Library Media Specialist
Kaneland High School
Junior Class Sponsor
(630) 365-5100  X221
lorna.code at kaneland.org

“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with
floaties and teach us to swim.”
― Linton Weeks <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1498146.Linton_Weeks>




On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> My junior high history teacher is always in favor of keeping accurate
> history books. However, use is a critical factor.
>
> I tend to weed if the reading level is too difficult for those who will
> use it.  Sometimes I have weeded and given to a classroom who uses a topic.
>
>
> Weeding is a challenge!  Good luck!
>
> Gina Snow - Christ the King School
> Springfield, IL
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Historical Atlases of middle eastern countries? To weed or not to weed?
>>
>> Great condition. Just old.
>>
>> They are historical up to 2003.  There is a timeline.  But we do a huge
>> countries project in 8th grade.
>>
>> I am not looking to buy new ones to replace if I weed.
>>
>> I am arguing with myself all the time about books like these.  They are
>> history, so they are "accurate" in the history part, just not current.
>>
>> Please advise what you would do?
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>> Amy Hamernick
>> Teacher Librarian
>> Century Jr. High
>> @AhamernickCJH
>> #CenturyWildcats
>>
>>
>> "If we always do what we've always done,
>> we will get what we've always got."
>> ~Adam Urbanski~
>>
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