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Jan. 19th, 2006 04:56 pmI have now finished teaching my unit on inventions. I made a display of the kids' work in the window at the library, mostly so I can show it to my professor when she comes to do her site visit. It's pretty cool though, the kids who bought into it and actually came to class did a good job. I wrote down some of their more humorous writing to share with you, which I will get around to eventually. I think. :)
Today I weeded old books out of the high school's collection. I pulled a bunch of books on the Middle East that were written in the 1980s or earlier, and some AIDS/HIV books from the 80s too. I also found some gems like "What About VD?", "The Rise of Red China" and "The Indian and the White Man in Connecticut", which are also sitting happily on the discard cart. Oh, there was also a book on what teenagers could do to help avoid nuclear war (huh?) and books on nuclear proliferation from 30 years ago. And books from the 1960s and 70s about American politics/political parties that hadn't circulated since the 60s and 70s due to their HEY-WE'RE-FROM-THE-60S-AND-70s looking covers. I love weeding. It's fun finding all these freakishly old, unloved, and sometimes just downright horrifying books and freeing the shelves of them. I hate to think of any kids who learned about safe sex from a book entitled "What About VD", after all! Plus, now I bet I can select some replacements for these books, which is also fun. See, up until this point, the library had a very small budget, so they couldn't really replace old stuff, which is why all this was still on the shelf. But it looks like they're going to be getting more money this year, so there is hope for the collection now.
My BPAL order and the crazy lip stuff came today, so it's time for a sniffing session now. :)
Today I weeded old books out of the high school's collection. I pulled a bunch of books on the Middle East that were written in the 1980s or earlier, and some AIDS/HIV books from the 80s too. I also found some gems like "What About VD?", "The Rise of Red China" and "The Indian and the White Man in Connecticut", which are also sitting happily on the discard cart. Oh, there was also a book on what teenagers could do to help avoid nuclear war (huh?) and books on nuclear proliferation from 30 years ago. And books from the 1960s and 70s about American politics/political parties that hadn't circulated since the 60s and 70s due to their HEY-WE'RE-FROM-THE-60S-AND-70s looking covers. I love weeding. It's fun finding all these freakishly old, unloved, and sometimes just downright horrifying books and freeing the shelves of them. I hate to think of any kids who learned about safe sex from a book entitled "What About VD", after all! Plus, now I bet I can select some replacements for these books, which is also fun. See, up until this point, the library had a very small budget, so they couldn't really replace old stuff, which is why all this was still on the shelf. But it looks like they're going to be getting more money this year, so there is hope for the collection now.
My BPAL order and the crazy lip stuff came today, so it's time for a sniffing session now. :)
