[ISLMA-Share] Quick Poll/Question

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Because students must have a pass to be in our hallways, they have to get a
pass to visit the library during their study hall. We're 1:1 so it's mostly
the environment that pulls them in, not necessarily the resources. In the
past, we prompted teachers to only write passes if the students NEEDED to
be in the library, but we do not do that anymore.

The only problem periods are the lunch periods as we get both kids from
lunch and kids from study hall - it's crazy in here. We're toying with the
idea of only permitting study hall students during those periods if they
need to be here for a specific assignment, but I'm struggling to decide if
that's fair/ best practice.

We do require students to stay the entire period - they can only leave on
bells.

Contact me with any follow-up questions. I feel your pain.

Erica Drumm
York High School
edrumm at elmhurst205.org

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Good morning, all!
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> We are having an overcrowding issue in our library.  I work in a high
> school library, and I’m playing with the idea of changing how we take
> students into the media center during study hall periods.  Currently, we
> have a system in place where students obtain a pass from their content area
> teacher if they have to work on an assignment.  They show up to the media
> center with their ID and their pass, and we scan them in.
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> High school librarians/media specialists: how do YOU run your libraries
> for study hall/free periods?  Do you have passes that YOU hand out?  Do you
> have the students sign up to come to the library? Do you have teachers
> write the passes?   Do you limit at all?  Just looking for some ideas.
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Lisa Marcum
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> Media and Technology Specialist
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> Plainfield East High School
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> lmarcum at psd202.org
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Erica Drumm
Librarian
York Community High School
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