[ISLMA-Share] deleted/donated books

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In my experience, if you don't remove your school identifying information,
they keep coming back to you...

We remove barcode labels when we can do so without damaging the cover.
Otherwise, write 'deleted' in Sharpie across the barcode, and stamp
'deleted' in a few places. Spare address labels are good for covering up
information you can't remove or ink over.

If any of your items are marked that they are purchased with grant funds,
be sure to check with your district, because there may be special rules
about discarding those.

Chris Wilson

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I'm weeding a large chunk of nonfiction this year, and I use high school
> student volunteers to take care of "stripping" the books. (For some reason,
> they love doing this). All deleted/weeded books are on a cart in my office.
> The helper gets a big black permanent marker and a red "discard" stamp.
> They tear out the date-due slip, and black out the barcode, the school name
> stamped on the title page, and the spine label. Then they stamp "discard"
> on the title page. Usually they can work through a cart full of books in
> less than a week. As they finish, I set aside some books for our annual
> used book sale, and then take the ones that will not be of interest to
> anyone and carry them out one box at a time to drop in a book donation
> stand (you can find them in some church parking lots if you look - they
> collect books to help teach reading, and recycle the ones they don't use).
> I'm not sure where I heard that identifying marks have to be removed from
> deleted books, but I seem to have gotten that message somewhere, too. I'm
> guessing so that the books don't end up coming back to you?
> Good luck!
>
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
> Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> What are the rules for getting rid of books? I was told before (not even
>> sure where I got that info??) that everything with the district/school name
>> needs to be removed... but that's kind of a lot of work if you have a large
>> pile of books!  Also the public library just puts a "withdrawn" label on
>> their books and leaves their stamps/name in the book.  Any insights about
>> what to do or where to go to find this info?
>>
>> --
>> Joy Yerly
>> Librarian
>> Arbor View School
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> Caroline Fox Anvick
> School Librarian
> Normal Community High School
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