As the end of the school year rapidly approaches, one of the major focuses of our library is to "gather in " all the items that students and staff still have checked out. Today we ran a list of all staff members who still had equipment, books, videos, DVDs etc. checked out from the library. This year with so many staff members leaving at the end of the year, it is especially important to try to get all these items back in before the end of the school year.
In the past we have printed out the notices, attached them to a memo, and placed the information in the teacher's mailbox. This year we decided that we would take a different approach since many seem to ignore our printed notices. So we went the email route instead.
It was not the fastest way to notify the teachers with items out as we had to type out individual e mails. In fact it probably would have been quicker to print the notices out and photocopy the memo, but I think the impact of the e mails may actually result in more things being returned this year. With in several minutes of sending out some of the e mails, we were hearing back from teachers and within a hour a number had sent the things back to the library. As my co-worker said teachers pay attention to e mails. Hey and no trees were harmed in the process. Maybe a few electrons.
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