Use a sign up sheet, library index card, or an electronic system to check out tapes. Keep check-out and return procedures simple and clear. If possible, log teacher use to determine which tapes are the most frequently borrowed. Copy the current issue of Cable in the Classroom magazine for each grade level in the Elementary School and each department subject area at the secondary level. Or, have your parent organization purchase additional subscriptions.
Availability greatly increases use.
Enter grant and award competitions sponsored by cable companies, programmers, and other businesses to win free equipment, magazine subscriptions, blank tapes, video programs, and cash awards. Promote your Video Library. Let parents know about the programs you're using through classroom and school newsletters. Administrators, use 20 minutes of an in service day to train teachers in the use of your video library system and to promote available resources. Use your parent organization to implement the Cable in the Classroom Comes Home program to actually get the programs videotaped.