As previously mentioned, I work at an alternative school. This is where all the students from the district (and it's a large urban district) who are suspended or expelled come. Presumably because of this, the previous librarian was afraid that books would not be returned, so they were not checked out. Can you imagine anything more useless than a big room full of books that no one can check out?
From day one I've been upset by this. The principal said that I could check them out as long as they were kept in a teacher's classroom, i.e., not brought home. I suspect (but don't know) that the teachers have let some of the more responsible students take the books home, but since they always came back, I haven't bothered to check into it. Finally, this month, I sat down and drafted what I thought was a reasonable checkout policy, and the principal approved it.
Today, a middle school class was in the library doing research for a project. One of the students who was finished asked me if we had any "scary books." I showed her a few titles and explained the plots; when I got to Sorcerers of the Nightwing by Geoffrey Huntington, and explained that in the beginning, the main character has demons come out of his closet, she practically grabbed it out of my hand and ran off to one of the tables to start reading. When I told her that she could check it out and take it home, her whole face lit up.
Yeah, some things about my job drive me crazy, but, at the risk of sounding sappy, it's all worth it.
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