Teachers all over the US are looking at their files and resource books, wondering if they really need to keep ALL of them. 

Okay - that's what I'm doing, so I'm assuming a few others may be as well.  With all the great online resources, certainly I don't need to keep all those articles I dutifully yanked out of subscriptions to teacher magazines years ago.

It's true - the internet provides us with scads of useful (and useless!) information, so it's time to put your sorting filters on and dig into the pile of books and papers.

Ask yourself -

• Have I used it in the past two years?
• Is it even mine? (return books to colleagues!)
• Is there something like it online?
  
• Do I have that site bookmarked? (so much less paper than a bookcase or file cabinet.)
• Do I know teachers in training who may want it? (Sometimes it's easier to part with something when it goes to someone else rather than the recycling bin.)
• Can I trade it on Paperbackswap?

If you have some resource books that you haven't used lately, you don't have to throw them away. You can barter! Go to paperbackswap.com. List your books. Trade for others that you WILL use. Or, maybe it's time to trade in the teacher books for some good summer reading.  Paperbackswap has tons of fiction!  If you do decide to set up an account and want to list your referrer, please put my name in there - my user name is Inspired.  I have traded some of my  resource books for other teacher books, so I'm not sure I've whittled down my teacher library that well!