Teachers: how do you keep your classroom library books from being lost?
Hello fellow teachers,
I’m faced with this problem every year, and it bothers me because I am a very organized person. My students borrow books from me and I end up closing out the year without as many books as I started with.
What do you do that works or doesn’t work? I’m interested in trying something new.
Thanks!
I’d use a library card system.
Create some kind of library
card and have the kid write
down his or her name and the date
they borrowed it. At least you will
know who is taking your books.
Then do an inventory weekly
so that you can keep a count
of your books. If you want, you
can elect a class librarian and he
or she can be responsible for checking
out books and doing an inventory..
December 26th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
I’d use a library card system.
Create some kind of library
card and have the kid write
down his or her name and the date
they borrowed it. At least you will
know who is taking your books.
Then do an inventory weekly
so that you can keep a count
of your books. If you want, you
can elect a class librarian and he
or she can be responsible for checking
out books and doing an inventory..
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December 26th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
yeah i agree with her because that is how our teacher does it and she will always call out the names if the person didn’t return it for a long time and we get locker checks at the end of the year and sometimes she will try to find her books like that
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December 26th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
I number the books on their spine with indelible ink from 1 – ? and I make 1 page for each book in a binder with the title & author and the # assigned to that book. I use 3 columns "DATE OUT" & "DATE IN" and a column of ratings (1 star to 5 star) – the students choose the book, they come to me and they sign it out in the book. I used to give them 1 week and then they had to bring the book back and sign it back in in front of me and they had to give it a star rating – I also initialled the "DATE IN" box when a book was coming back in. The books always had to be placed back on the shelf in numerical order and this way it was easy to see which book was out/missing. I used to look up the list every 1 or 2 weeks and if there were books outstanding (not signed back in) the students got a notice. If they didn’t bring it back within an agreed upon time, they started to lose marks from class participation. I found this method to be elegantly simple, easy to administer and book loss became virtually nil. If a student wanted to keep a book longer, they still had to bring it back in and sign it in and then out again, this way I could see that they hadn’t lost it.
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December 26th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Keep a borrowing record book where all books borrowed are recorded and the due date.When students fail to return books on the due date they are fined.If they loose the book they pay the cost of the book. The parents must be informed in a letter that the child has lost the book and that they must pay for it. Have a written library rules and ensure that all students have a copy and also place one in the classroom where everybody can see.Appoint some students as library monitors to help you
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