[Web4lib] magazine discards for high school libraries

[C Ward Price]

Mandi,

I know that anything older than last week is ancient history to high
school students, but it's a shame you can't keep older materials.
Twenty years ago I taught high school history, and our library/media
center kept magazines for 5 years before throwing them out.  I thought
they should still be kept, so I kept some of them.  Luckily we had extra
space in our social studies area, so I created a history resource
center.  Every year when the library threw out old news magazines, they
gave them to me.  Before long I had ten years worth of Time, Newsweek,
etc., to go along with the current magazines in the library.  Anyway,
you might want to contact teachers or others in your school to see if
they would be interested in keeping some of your magazines.

Ward Price, Librarian
Ivy Tech Community College, Northeast
3800 N. Anthony Blvd
Fort Wayne IN 46805
(260) 480-2033
cprice55 at ivytech.edu



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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Mandi Dorrell
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:03 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] magazine discards for high school libraries


Hi,
 
It came to my attention that a majority of our storage problem is
because we keep two year's worth of magazines in our
storage room, which take up about 80% of our storage space. My
supervisor gave me the okay to get rid of 1 year's worth of magazines.
What are other high
school libraries doing regarding magazine storage? I know I can also
remove the periodicals that are available online but they are few and
far between.
 
Mandi Dorell
Oakcrest High School Library
Mays Landing, NJ 08330
 
 
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