[ISLMA-Share] lost books

Wed Feb 22 18:21:58 CST 2017

Thanks for all your responses.  At least I'm not alone!!

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> On Feb 22, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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> I have also found that some of our “lost” books are due to clerical error. Sometimes when there are many students waiting to check out books, I think that I’ve checked the book out to that student, but it doesn’t happen. A student has the book, but it wasn’t checked out properly by one of us in the library. These usually make it back at some point.
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> Patti Fleser
> Library Media Specialist
> Deer Path Middle School
> Lake Forest, IL
> 847-604-7433
> @DPM_Library
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> President, Illinois School Library Media Association
> "...a library is more than a collection of dusty old books. It is a place to learn, explore, and grow!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
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> From: <islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info> on behalf of Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info>
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> Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 11:25 AM
> To: "islma at list.railslibraries.info" <islma at list.railslibraries.info>
> Subject: Re: [ISLMA-Share] lost books
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> I think there are also many accidental thefts.  The bell rings.  Students quickly gather their things.  Later at their locker, they realize that they still have that library book they were browsing through but didn’t checked out.  Then they are embarrassed about returning it so they put it in a teacher’s classroom, put it back in their locker to return later, etc.
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> Also why on my Amnesty Days I emphasize the “no questions asked.”
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> Brian Andrusyk
> School Librarian/Sub Coordinator
> IC Catholic Prep
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> From: islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info [mailto:islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info] On Behalf Of Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 10:22 AM
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> It shouldn't be embarrassing for you that books have been stolen.  You can't help it that some people in your school have no ethics.  And a teacher in the school should understand.  If someone has stolen a book, that's on them, not on you. (It is, however, on your budget if you choose to replace it.  On that count, be angry or frustrated but not embarrassed.)
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> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
> I love this story!  I have a friend who got divorced and in the process sent back all the books her ex-husband had stolen from the Brown University library.  I applauded her on that one!
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> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
> Every so often, we have locker clean-out day.  I always make it an amnesty day and have an announcement that there would be no fine nor questions asked about any book returned on that day.  I am always surprised how many wandering books are guided back home.
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> I also have had alumni return books they found on their bookshelf years later.  Mostly they have been previous year graduates, but the best was when a man in town for his 40th reunion turned in a book he found in his collection.  He had checked it out from the school library and never returned it.  He wanted me to calculate what the fine would be.  I told him I’d settle for a donation and that he could decide on the amount.  It was a geometry book and I told him he could keep it.  I’ll never forget his reply.  “No thank you.  I always hated geometry.”
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> Brian Andrusyk
> School Librarian/Sub Coordinator
> IC Catholic Prep
> www.andrusykslibrary.weebly.com
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> Currently Reading:
> Fake ID  by Lamar Giles
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> From:islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info [mailto:islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info] On Behalf Of Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 9:14 AM
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> Subject: Re: [ISLMA-Share] lost books
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> I have this problem, too. At the end of last year, I spoke with all of the seniors and told them to go through their cars, bedrooms, lockers, etc., and find the books that they took out of the library in years past without checking them out. We didn't have a full-time librarian a few years ago, and kids would come in and grab a book and forget to bring it back when somebody was here to check it out. I told them there would be no consequences and no questions asked. I got a few books back. I think they appreciated that they could return them, and I wouldn't hassle them about it. 
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> I also printed out a list of the lost books after inventory last year and went around to the classrooms to look for them. It seems like several books get put on the English teachers' shelves or stuck under desks in classrooms.
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> Also, you could speak with your maintenance staff. Our awesome staff leaves me a stack of books they find over the summer in lockers, locker rooms, classrooms, etc.
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> Good luck! 
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> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
> My library has no walls, and with so many kids in the building after hours, it’s way too frequent.  I also find books in the most bizarre place—and I finally saw it happen: A kid picked out a book, but then he saw a different book he wanted as he was walking toward the desk, so he just exchanged them.  **sigh**  They don’t see why that is a problem.  Responsibility is a learned trait, and not all kids have it yet. At least they are stealing books instead of wallets. And sometimes it can be an honest mistake—like getting distracted at Cracker Barrel by all the store products and forgetting to pay and having to go back later and circling around the store so it looks like you just walked out of the restaurant and over to the cashier.  Not that I’ve ever done that! J
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> Valerie brunner
> 315 S. Henderson
> Mt. Zion, IL 62549
> brunnerv at mtzion.k12.il.us
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> “be kind.  Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
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> Even though I do an inventory at the end of the year and mark all missing books as lost, I still cannot find books.  
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> Just now, a teacher came in looking for a popular book and it was not there.  I am embarrassed.  I cannot explain it except that perhaps kids take them out without checking them out.  
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> Do any of you have this problem regularly and if so, have any suggestions for keeping better track?
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> Thank you!
> Sue Meegan
> District 157
> Calumet City
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