1 MINUTES Castor Valley Elementary School Council Meeting ...

5 Oct 2011To: Parents’ CouncilFrom: Coreen Atkins-SheldrickLibrary Tech.Finally, at long last, the Library at Castor Valley is back in order, up and running.With the assistance of the many wonderful Parent Volunteers who put in 200+ volunteer hours in June (packing)as well as September-October (inventorying, purging and reshelving of approx. 13,000 items), the last books wereplaced on the shelves on the 4 th .The CVES Library will be fully operational and available for students to borrow books as of 11 th of October.As a result of the purging that was carried out (approx. 2300 books removed from collection), we now have spaceon the shelves for the approx. 1000 new books (new to CVES), awaiting processing.For those who may be concerned regarding volume of books removed from collection, books were purged basedupon following criteria:- have not circulated in 6-10+ years, or;- material was extremely outdated (facts, graphics, format), or;- book was damaged or in very poor condition (falling apart, moldy, etc.), or;- there were more than 2 copies of the book on the shelves (English), or 3 copies (French), or;- Material was inappropriate for K - 8 students.Every attempt was made to ensure that one subject area was not completely wiped out (countries, period ofhistory, etc.). Any gaps in the collection which were identified as a result of the inventory process have beenadded to the ongoing “Wish List” which I have been compiling over the last couple of years (and maintain on aregular basis).The discarded/purged books are being dealt with in the following way:1. Teachers (and staff) are given the opportunity to go through books and select those desired for theirown classroom collections;2. the Ambassadors will go through books, selecting those which are appropriate for sending to schoolsin Zimbabwe (English only) (if anyone knows of a way to get the French books to Haiti, let theAmbassadors know);3. CVES used book sale in Spring.THANK YOU so very much to the wonderful Parent Volunteers who assisted with this massive undertaking andfor those who have volunteered to continuing helping with the processing of the new books and putting booksback on the shelves, once book exchange is underway.Scholastic Book Fair – September 2011As a result of the very successful book Fair, we realized sales of $ 5100.00 which has resulted in a book credit of$ 3500.00 ($ 2900.00 has already been spent on new books and Teachers’ resources).Thank you to all the Students, Parents and Staff who supported the sale. The next sale will be in February 2012.11