Dear Colleagues,

Would love to hear your thoughts...I like to have students write book
reviews for our Destiny catalog as an end of year activity-gives me time to
edit them over the summer. One of my directives is that they can only do a
positive review, i.e. 4 or 5 stars. My reasoning is that if they write
something negative about a book it will discourage other readers. And that
the library has all kinds of books for all kinds of readers.

Yesterday, a thoughtful young man (but one who asks odd sort of naive
questions) asked me why I felt that there should not be negative reviews. I
had a small group with me-my library squad volunteer helpers so one of the
"with it" young ladies answered for me.

What are your thoughts-for those who do this activity with Destiny-do you
allow negative reviews?

Thank you in advance.

-- 
Amy Ipp
Librarian
Millburn Middle School
Millburn, NJ
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