[CASL-L] Security Gates and Tattletape Dilemma

[Rachel Anna Bray]

Happy summer!

I'm writing to seek some advice from the collective brain.

At our suburban/borderline urban middle school library in Windsor, CT we have a 3M security gate and pay to have tattletape processing on all of our books.

We are considering saving some money and dropping our service agreement for our 3M security gate and stopping the tattletape processing.

We have LOTS of foot traffic in our library, roughly between 100-120 visits from individual students per day (this doesn't count the many paraprofessionals that come in to work with students in sessions daily or class visits). We ask people to sign in at the entrance.

We are considering "dropping" the security gate and tattletape because we would like to use the money to buy more books.

We look at the gate as more of a reminder (for us and for the students) to check the books out and not as a security gate that prevents people from stealing. It's more of a reminder system.

We are at a crossroads and don't know if we would be better off dropping the security costs and buying more books or continuing with the security system that we have in place.

Please respond and let us know what you are doing at your library.
Please include your town, staffing situation, and your thoughts about the security system.
I will collect and repost the results to the CASL list-serv.

Thanks!

Rachel Bray



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Rachel Bray

Library Media Specialist

Sage Park Middle School

25 Sage Park Rd.<x-apple-data-detectors://3>

Windsor, CT 06095<x-apple-data-detectors://4>

rbray at windsorct.org<mailto:rbray at windsorct.org>

860-687-2030 Ext.165<tel:860-687-2030;165>

https://sites.google.com/a/windsorct.org/sage-park-library/

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On Jul 13, 2016, at 10:49 AM, Debbie Abilock <dabilock at gmail.com<mailto:dabilock at gmail.com>> wrote:

There's are a series of webinars about school librarians teaching data literacy.  It's going to be really fun and you can either dip your toes in or attend all the webinars - which are free.
The Conference Begins Thursday Morning!
We're looking forward to seeing you on Thursday morning as we kick off the conference at 9am Eastern.



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Here are some blogs we really enjoy about data and statistics:


<http://fivethirtyeight.com/>



  *   FiveThirtyEight.com<http://fivethirtyeight.com/> - from forecasting election results to figuring out which percentage of the ESPN OJ Simpson documentary series contained archival footage, this is a great source for thoughtful analysis and great visualizations. Led by Nate Silver.
  *   Flowing Data<http://flowingdata.com/> - A blog on data visualization by Nathan Yau, whose book Data Points is one of our team's favorites. Lots of imaginative examples of visualizing anything from America's consumption of various foodstuffs to predictions of when you will, ummm, die. (Note: dying of boredom from our upcoming webinars is not an option.)



We look forward to seeing you soon! If you have any questions in the meantime, please email us at contact.data.literacy at umich.edu<mailto:contact.data.literacy at umich.edu>.


This conference is free and organized by the University of Michigan School of Information and the University of Michigan Library with support from the University of Michigan School of Education. The conference is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services RE-00-15-0113-15.

best,
Debbie Abilock
NoodleTools/NoodleTeach
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