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[A Library Policy Manual For Selah School District Libraries, Selah, Washington], Roberta Jean Gustafson
[A Library Policy Manual For Selah School District Libraries, Selah, Washington], Roberta Jean Gustafson
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This project was undertaken to develop a library policy manual for the Selah School District libraries. Topics were collected from a variety of venues, manuals on the Internet,the.librarian list serv LM-NET, American.LibraryAssociation and the Washington Library Media Association. Lists generated from these sources were then narrowed down to the important management and operations topics. It was determined that substitutes in the library would need the information to manage the library, utilize the checkout system and enforce library policies, therefore those sections are in the front of the manual. Those policies that are part of the Selah School District Board Policies …
Beginning A Book Swap Room: A Quantitative And Qualitative Study, Mari Lynn Stangland
Beginning A Book Swap Room: A Quantitative And Qualitative Study, Mari Lynn Stangland
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Many children do not have adequate access to print. To rectify this in her school, the author created an ongoing Book Swap Room. The author documented the reading growth of students by looking at their reading test data in conjunction with records of the number of books traded in the Room. A family survey was used on three occasions to determine book ownership in the home of students, and a student survey was used to determine whether the Book Swap Room was achieving its desired goal of reinforcing book ownership. Though results were mixed and inconclusive, the author has seen …