Spent about four hours at my selected library, WLMS, on Wednesday while I went through the 300 section of the media center.  Ms. Lyday is right, it does need weeding and bad!  I noted about 75 titles that could be removed due to various reasons--most of them are just plain out of date particularly the books about issues like divorce and teen problems.  I also found several books on government from the 1960s and 1970s that did not look pretty at all not even to me, and I like books. You know those middle schoolers are not going to want to check out any of those books.  Some of the holiday books are way too thick and mostly text, very little illustrations and what they did have are like ink drawings which do not look that great to start with.  I already know of about 5 or 6 titles that I am going to find replacements for and I will decide on the other 4 or 5 to get the 10. I showed Ms. Lyday my list and told her I would clean it up, my notes about book condition are everywhere, and email it to her. She said that would be such a big help to her. Later I will send her the list of replacements and she can do whatever she wants.  I think she may actually use some of my recommendations.

graphic novels

Enjoyed that article on graphic novels that I did for critique #2 so much that I checked out two of them from the public library. Am reading one of them, a Japanese translation, from back to front. That is a strange experience, for sure. Took a little bit to catch on how to read the panels but I think I have it now. As Spock from Star Trek would say, "Fascinating"