[ISLMA-Share] books in foreign languages

Wed Feb 21 15:05:41 CST 2018

Mine were weeded last year.  The foreign language department kept what they
thought they might want but the rest were donated to the recycle bin :)
The only thing I have left is the dictionaries.

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I'm weeding the 400s in my high school library, and I'm a little at a loss
> at what to do with a large-ish collection of books in foreign languages.
> Obviously we will keep the dictionaries, and I do keep a current collection
> of modern young adult novels in Spanish for our Spanish-speaking students.
> I'm talking about old books (I don't honestly even know what most of them
> are about) in German, French, and Spanish. When I weeded that section a
> while back, we made the decision to delete the books from our system, but
> keep them on the shelves in case any of the foreign language teachers
> wanted to use them. (Basically, I just passed the buck to myself six years
> in the future).
> Do any of you in high school libraries keep books such as these, or is
> there a place for them anymore in a collection? They literally have not
> moved in the ten years I've been here.
> Thanks! :)
>
> --
> Caroline Fox Anvick
> School Librarian
> Normal Community High School
>
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*Rachel Bielby, MLIS*
Librarian
Sacred Heart-Griffin High School
Springfield, IL 62702
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