I'm in a 6-12 school - when I arrived there were several magazine subscriptions going - I think maybe they had been parent-funded? With a very tight budget I let them all go - next to no one noticed. I put out the old yearbooks in their place - the kids love to leaf through those!

Anyone had any experience with tablet-based magazines? I think EBSCO sells them. For the most part we seem to be talking high-interest leisure titles - the stuff one picks up in a waiting room and browses through. Do kids do that anymore? Yes, there are magazines of teen interest available through researchit CT, but I really don't see them accessing them that way.

Just my two cents

Carol Ansel

Librarian/Information Wilderness Guide

The Williams School

182 Mohegan Avenue

New London, CT 06320-4110

860.439.2784

"Today, with our powers of concentration atrophied by the staccato communication of the Internet and attention easily diverted to addictive entertainment on our phones and tablets, book-length reading is harder still" -- Colin Robinson

diane jennings <diane.jennings@somers.k12.ct.us> writes:

I'm in a middle school and my students never take out magazines. I've drastically cut the number of magazines for students and purchased subscriptions that would contribute to content areas. When those come in I look for articles that pertain to projects/units of study and let the teachers know. 

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:46 AM, LaMontagne, Todd (Ellis) <Todd.LaMontagne@ct.gov> wrote:

I am in a high school and I find very few students read magazines!  Even those that you would expect to be very popular such as Seventeen or Sports Illustrated go unread from month to month.  I spent nearly $800 on periodicals for the past two years and I am thinking of redirecting those funds towards books. 

 

Todd M. LaMontagne

Library Media Specialist

H. H. Ellis Technical High School

613 Upper Maple Street

Danielson, CT  06239

(860) 412-7558

todd.lamontagne@ct.gov

 

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