{"id":2445,"date":"2012-11-15T16:06:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T20:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2012-11-20T20:45:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T00:45:40","slug":"library-revitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/library-revitalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Revitalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Mme. Payne<\/p>\n<p>I am very excited to tell you that we  are undertaking a huge Library Revitalization Project here at Allenby.  This project involves weeding many books from the library.\u00a0 There are  some\u00a0FAQs about weeding <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001d7cNBy5DaU2dodRC2jks9Js5Et-zAUdTQ2N4OSfllBmGp_V9Erk0Cp6pxKuXgUZo-HB08GoRySbducfrlce-dKpmjAcA_e8k91re84XEOaPBGHUj-pfsPFlchAeHAedBVOCmaX0f42XNGchToKvmWOcWY4td-GGNL31nwvPMJwBhS0pqQUFsNLwM6ikNDCx6ugVns00wDiT2F4E5kiJB1g==\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> that you can read through to get a better understanding of how books  are chosen to be removed from the library. The weeding is done in  consultation with our Teacher Librarian (me), our Library Instructional  Leader (Andrea Sykes), our French Instructional Leader (Brigitte  Hansen),\u00a0a team of 5\u00a0TDSB Library Technicians, as well as a\u00a0small team  of experienced parent volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>The weeding\u00a0will focus on  removing\u00a0materials based on condition and suitability for supporting  student learning at Allenby with the goals of providing an up-to-date  and relevant collection and ensuring an accessible and efficient  collection.<\/p>\n<p>Weeding helps to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create an up-to-date collection<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that all parts of the collection have been evaluated for equity issues and stereotyping<\/li>\n<li>Make gap analysis easier<\/li>\n<li>Direct further collection development<\/li>\n<li>Provide a cleaner and more attractive collection<\/li>\n<li>Make it easier to search and find relevant material<\/li>\n<li>Make it easier to maintain the library<\/li>\n<li>Highlight and makes accessible new and exciting resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately, in order to complete this project, the library will need be completely closed during the week of November 26-30.  All book exchange will be cancelled during that week, and the computer  lab will be closed to teachers and students. Although this is a  temporary inconvenience to staff and students, it is necessary, as  virtually every single book (We have over 27 000 of them!) in the  library will be in use during that week. Most will be removed from the  shelves, examined, many will be moved, repaired, or re-catalogued. Some  shelving and furniture will also be moved around.<\/p>\n<p>There will likely be a large number  of books deleted from our collection. Some of these books are still in  good condition, current, appropriate, and suitable for classroom use.  These may be extra copies, or simply books that can be better used by  teachers if they keep them in their own classroom libraries. As such,  these books will be made available to teachers. Also, in some cases  books that are still popular are in poor condition. The school has also  committed some funds to purchase new copies of these as well as some  exciting new resources.<\/p>\n<p>You may want to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001d7cNBy5DaU2dodRC2jks9Js5Et-zAUdTQ2N4OSfllBmGp_V9Erk0Cp6pxKuXgUZo-HB08GoRySbducfrlce-dKpmjAcA_e8k91re84XEOaPBGHUj-pfsPFlchAeHAedBVOCmaX0f42XNGchToKvmWOcWY4td-GGNL31nwvPMJwBhS0pqQUFsNLwM6ikNDCx6ugVns00wDiT2F4E5kiJB1g==\" target=\"_blank\">Q&amp;A<\/a> about the Library Revitalization process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Mme. Payne I am very excited to tell you that we are undertaking a huge Library Revitalization Project here at Allenby. This project involves weeding many books from the library.\u00a0 There are some\u00a0FAQs about weeding here that you can read through to get a better understanding of how books are chosen to be removed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-news","tag-library"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}