[aisle] [Mamelist] Textbook Distribution Procedure - Resource Manager

Wed Nov 4 08:08:57 CST 2020

For our fall checkout, we printed labels with each student’s name, grade and ID# barcode and affixed them on bags that we set up alphabetically and by grade.  Teachers brought the textbooks to the LC with rosters. We checked out the books as we placed them in the appropriate bags.  Students then did a drive-through pick up.  It was quite an undertaking, but I don’t expect it to be so bad for second semester since most classes are a full year. The challenge will be getting the 1st semester books back first so they can then be checked out again.

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Subject: Re: [aisle] [Mamelist] Textbook Distribution Procedure - Resource Manager

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Well, I have never done this but I do manage a great deal of materials for my district.

In reading this my initial reaction to this is that it is very possible to make this happen.....but it feels like it will require a great deal pre-preparation.  If you had tables set up around the gym or cafeteria that you could lay everything out in alpha order it would be a breeze to hand out.  In person students could come down and get their books a few students at a time and with a couple strong adults with carts you could, at the same time, service the other students curbside.

If you had class enrollments, Science, SS, Math, etc. you could pull the books from the closets and match them with the alphabetized schedules on the tables.  Then go around to each pile of books and check them out to the students that way you only need to hand them their stack on "distribution day."

So, there you go....my two cents worth.  Maybe it will be helpful and maybe not..... I would love to come and help you.  I love things like this.

I wish you well in this endeavor.

Lisa Brakel, M.Ed., M.L.S.
District School Librarian,
Airport Community Schools
Carleton, MI 48117
Michigan Association for Media in Education (MAME), Past President, 2016
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:06 AM Melissa Lambert via Mamelist <mamelist at mcls.org<mailto:mamelist at mcls.org>> wrote:
Hi All,

I am looking for a textbook distribution procedure for our 2nd Trimester. I  just put all of our textbooks in Resource Manager this summer so everything is semi-new. In August we were fully remote. We had students drive up to our gym doors, we pulled their schedule, pulled their books, checked them out and handed them their books without them getting out of the car. Students had a specific day and time slot to come pick up their books.We did this over 4 days.

We are now on a hybrid schedule so I am looking for ways to distribute textbooks to students in the building. If you already have something in place could you please share the procedure with me? Here are my hurdles,

  1.  I do not have a textbook room so all textbooks are in department book rooms but not all teachers know how to checkout.
  2.  I will have a textbook room next year so my administrators do not want teachers checking out textbooks since they will only have to do it one year and to avoid a learning curve.
  3.  Maintain social distancing
  4.  Get all 900 students (remote and F2F) all of their books in one day.
Thanks for your help!
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