Hi,

I'm in the same situation at a middle school with 1,000 students, one LMS and no clerk. I did read a post that appealed to me (can't remember where) but the LMS is ordering 5 flat topped rolling book carts (one for each day of the week) that can house a laptop with scanner, books to distribute on one side and books to collect back on the other side. Another idea would be to have the books that students placed on hold on one side of the cart and the book-talk books on the other side. I"m thinking I could visit a couple of reading classes per period this way.

I also read somewhere that a good idea would be to have the first lesson to teach students to put books on hold via the circulation system if they don't already know how to do it

I also want to know the most efficient way to take book requests since it may be easy enough to have 1000 students request books in Destiny but how to sort them and get them to the right places in a timely manner. I see this as the biggest challenge.

Happy Friday!

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 9:01 AM Melissa Thom via CASL-L <casl-l@mylist.net> wrote:

Hello!

I will be in the same situation in my middle school and actually have a similar plan in mind with students requesting books and delivering them in book mobile fashion to their morning advisories. A couple of logistical questions I have is what is the best way to have them request books? Is it emails, a google form, Destiny??

And then how will I physically do this for an entire school when I am the only one in the library.

I like the idea of having a weekly schedule so Monday would be 6th grade and so on....

Hoping we can all work together to creative problem solve!!!

Melissa
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 7:08 AM Musket, Kimberly <kmusket@wallingfordschools.org> wrote:
Good morning-
I am a middle school librarian and have been trying to think of the best ways to get books to students this coming school year. The other middle school librarian in my town and I are working on a plan to get books to students in a safe way.

We do not have regularly-scheduled classes. We collaborate with classroom teachers. During pre-pandemic times, teachers would bring their classes to get books and students could come down individually to get books.

We are going to have collection bins for each day of the week so we know when books have been returned. After 72 hours, we will check them in and shelve them. We are thinking that we will have students request the books they want and we will deliver them to classrooms. Maybe have a set schedule such as, Mondays for sixth grade, etc.

Does anyone else have any good suggestions for getting books to middle school students?

Thank you
Kim

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