{"id":1111,"date":"2021-01-19T20:39:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/christie.boen\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2021-01-19T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:39:54","slug":"graffiti-books-from-weeded-to-wanted-and-written-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/graffiti-books-from-weeded-to-wanted-and-written-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti Books: From Weeded to Wanted (and Written In!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those of us who work in libraries, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/gapps.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/weeding\" target=\"_blank\">weeding<\/a> is a task that needs to be done periodically. It can be a dreaded task, but it can also bring new life to a library by making room for new books and allowing space for books to be faced out in order to entice readers (as well as many other reasons). Weeding is not something you do willy-nilly. There are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/gapps.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/weeding\" target=\"_blank\">specific guidelines<\/a> that should be followed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/christie.boen\/files\/2021\/01\/annie-spratt-6Aj3eKsng8c-unsplash-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/christie.boen\/files\/2021\/01\/annie-spratt-6Aj3eKsng8c-unsplash-1024x796.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/files\/2021\/01\/annie-spratt-6Aj3eKsng8c-unsplash-1024x796.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/files\/2021\/01\/annie-spratt-6Aj3eKsng8c-unsplash-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/files\/2021\/01\/annie-spratt-6Aj3eKsng8c-unsplash-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/files\/2021\/01\/annie-spratt-6Aj3eKsng8c-unsplash-1536x1194.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/files\/2021\/01\/annie-spratt-6Aj3eKsng8c-unsplash-2048x1592.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question is, once you weed, what do you do with all of those books? We have <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/gapps.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/disposal-policy\" target=\"_blank\">procedures<\/a> on what to do with them and yet, today I came across another idea in an article in School Library Journal regarding what to do with those weeded books: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slj.com\/?detailStory=graffiti-books-from-weeded-to-wanted-and-written-in-school-libraries&amp;utm_source=Marketing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=january19ExtraHelping\" target=\"_blank\">Graffiti Books<\/a>! Now mind you, after you read this article, please don&#8217;t go weeding just for the sake of getting books for this idea. \ud83d\ude02  Make sure you follow those weeding guidelines I mentioned above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us who work in libraries, weeding is a task that needs to be done periodically. It can be a dreaded task, but it can also bring new life to a library by making room for new books <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/graffiti-books-from-weeded-to-wanted-and-written-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Graffiti Books: From Weeded to Wanted (and Written In!)<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stc_notifier_status":"sent","_stc_notifier_sent_time":"2021-01-19 21:12:18","_stc_notifier_request":false,"_stc_notifier_prevent":false,"_stc_subscriber_keywords":"","_stc_subscriber_search_areas":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33449,50378,50377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elementary","category-high","category-middle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/blslibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}