Wednesday, October 27, 2004
What the librarian did on Wed Oct 27...
When I got to work, Mrs Grosz was already there, finishing up business from days before. She also subbed for the gym teacher for four classes...talk about busy!
We printed out a batch of labels, and in the process of affixing them, ran into some catalog confusion which I to go in and make right. This took more time than I would have thought.
The Open House showed us that we really needed to beef up our books for 8th graders and so I went through all of our fiction donations and the recent donations that we hadn't sorted yet to find good stuff for our junior high. I put those aside for me to take home and annotate with the correct subject headings/classification numbers.
I went though the recent donations and was very, very sad. It turns out these were from another Christian school that was no longer in operation. They had given us two crates of BEAUTIFUL high quality animal books that I know our students would loved....except that I had to throw most of them in the dumpster asap - victims of must/mold. Keeping them in the library would have contaminated all other books...Books just do not like garages or basements...what a bummer.
We had a slew of forth graders visit...that is truly my favorite part of the job...my day was made when I delivered some books to Miss. Roux's class and a boy just had to read me the coolest poem from the anthology he had been so happy to borrow from the library today...there are some good things happening in that class - go Miss R.!
Also time thinking thru our work flow for processing books and making labeled boxes for different steps. We need now to think about all the steps we need to do with the book in addition to labeling it such as stamping CCA on it, putting a pocket in it, etc. Actually I need to think about it and talk it over with those in the PTO gifted at such details...
Got a heads up from the Fifth grade teacher, Mr. V. that his class will be doing a report on mammals and the Encyclopedia upstairs (our newest one, the World Book 1999) didn't help as much as he would have liked. He said he'd be getting me the particulars.
Mrs. N popped in and said she needed more permisson slips for K4 to take out books - Mrs. G got right on it.
And somewhere in there I had a bit to eat and drove my neightbor home. A busy but good day!
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We printed out a batch of labels, and in the process of affixing them, ran into some catalog confusion which I to go in and make right. This took more time than I would have thought.
The Open House showed us that we really needed to beef up our books for 8th graders and so I went through all of our fiction donations and the recent donations that we hadn't sorted yet to find good stuff for our junior high. I put those aside for me to take home and annotate with the correct subject headings/classification numbers.
I went though the recent donations and was very, very sad. It turns out these were from another Christian school that was no longer in operation. They had given us two crates of BEAUTIFUL high quality animal books that I know our students would loved....except that I had to throw most of them in the dumpster asap - victims of must/mold. Keeping them in the library would have contaminated all other books...Books just do not like garages or basements...what a bummer.
We had a slew of forth graders visit...that is truly my favorite part of the job...my day was made when I delivered some books to Miss. Roux's class and a boy just had to read me the coolest poem from the anthology he had been so happy to borrow from the library today...there are some good things happening in that class - go Miss R.!
Also time thinking thru our work flow for processing books and making labeled boxes for different steps. We need now to think about all the steps we need to do with the book in addition to labeling it such as stamping CCA on it, putting a pocket in it, etc. Actually I need to think about it and talk it over with those in the PTO gifted at such details...
Got a heads up from the Fifth grade teacher, Mr. V. that his class will be doing a report on mammals and the Encyclopedia upstairs (our newest one, the World Book 1999) didn't help as much as he would have liked. He said he'd be getting me the particulars.
Mrs. N popped in and said she needed more permisson slips for K4 to take out books - Mrs. G got right on it.
And somewhere in there I had a bit to eat and drove my neightbor home. A busy but good day!
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