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TL11.4FALL2004_singles culate a fair bit. They go out for a week. We do not circulate the new titles until they have been replaced by a new issue. We used to keep the more popular maga- zines behind the circulation desk and have the students sign them out, but this proved to be more trouble than it was worth. The reality of magazines is the students will rip them up or off for any number of reasons. We once caught a student gluing pages from a magazine she had cut out (with our scissors!) to a presentation board. When confronted, she could not under- stand why we were making such a big deal of it. She paid for the magazine, but never did see anything wrong with what she'd done. It was just a magazine! In some ways, she is correct. The magazines have not become an obsession with us. If a page is destroyed or removed, well, it's frustrating, but it's not the end of the world. If a particular magazine is consistently dam- aged or stolen, we simply let the subscription run out. Who needs the aggravation? I also buy magazines for students I haven't yet met but who may be in the school. We get Servo magazine for that student who is interest- ed in robotics. We do not have a robotics pro- gramme in the school, but in a school of almost 2000 students, there must be someone who finds this interesting. I also try to satisfy the various subject disciplines, for example, dance magazines for the dance programme and Canadian Musician for the music class. The cooking and house decorating magazines are very popular with the staff. One of our teach- ers has never signed out a book, but, come hol- iday time, she signs out a stack of Gourmet and Architectural Digest magazines. Our June sale of the back issues has become an eagerly anticipated annual event. We basi- cally give away the magazines as we need the space. We keep anything that appears in our 12 Ontario School Library Association son, we house many popular culture maga- zines--Seventeen, Teen People, Spin, Vibe, Entertainment Weekly, Premiere, and so on. For those with more technical interests, we have Canadian Workshop, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, and Woodsmith. To keep cur- rent with the news, students read Macleans, Newsweek, and Time. For those on the left, we suggest This, Canadian Dimension, Harpers, and Mother Jones. The environmentalists like E Magazine, Alternatives, Sierra, and Canadian Wildlife. Those on the right prefer Economist, Fortune, Canadian Business, and Business Week. This is a Catholic school, so we also subscribe to Catholic New Times, Catholic Parent, Catholic Register, and Catholic Insight. If there is an area of interest, we probably have a magazine for it. Books cannot compare with magazines for currency of information. Our newly published computer books are old beside the current computer magazines. Canadian Geographic has more to offer than most of our Canadian geog- raphy books. For this reason, I go through each magazine at night looking for relevant top- ics. I used to be able to remember where I saw a particular article, but either the number of titles or my years have made my recall ability shoddy. For the past six years, I have been compiling a list of curriculum-related articles. This list is kept in the library as an in-house index. An Excel spreadsheet is used to list the articles alphabetically by subject and list the magazine title, date and page. The students make good use of this and our back issues cir-