Early

Monday the 14th - We were closed all day again today. We did a lot more cleaning out. Mrs. H and I cleaned out the Professional Library. No one really uses them, so it was time to clean them out. I also gleaned out some old paperwork. I kept some of the more recent things, but all the rest went into the recycled paper bin. Packed up more books for suplus.

Sequestered

Today the library was fully used by the AP Testing, so we were all in the back working. Mrs. M did an amazing job knocking off the inventory of books in. I worked with Mrs. H on cleaning stuff out. Took in batteries so I could test remotes for equipment we have and found quite a few! The rest are in the 'free' pile. Cleaned out boxes stacked in places, took cardboard to the recycler bin, filled a whole pushcart bin with stuff to throw away and leafed through most of the old yearbooks to see which ones were all in one piece and which were cut up. So funny to start running into teachers who started here in 1983 and how they looked then! Mrs. H also found an original copy (we think) of the land deed to Sprague from 1934! It looked pretty authentic to Mrs. H and I! She took it to Mr. S, our principal and he is going to take it to the district legal/archive/important things people to make sure it's all good!

Purge!

Got one of the back rooms all cleaned out today and after the tech crew went through the boxes of cords and techie what nots, we tossed it in the purge dumpster. Got stuff up on shelves in the back. The last of the Principles of Technology Unit 1 and the new Algebra Connections Supplements all found a home on the shelves. I also went through all our yearbooks and organized them by years. Some only have one for a year, others had up to five copies! When we got back into the library I ran the rest of the inventory reports and checked the barcodes on the remotes. Checked out the list of books to a teacher that Mrs. M had just hand written them out to him before I got in. Went to my Thursday morning meeting and those are now over for now. The tech guys just need to do some tweaking on the program, but otherwise it's just about ready to go. We had a former student/library aide stop by today who joined the Navy and it was so good to see him! Mrs. M and I both gave him a big hug, he looks so much more mature since December - they have done him well!

ER

Had to leave early today because my hubby had to go to the ER! His boss called and asked if I'd come and get him and by the time I got over there, he had called the ambulance and they were just taking him away - he is fine, and the office staff were wonderful, shooing me off to be there for my hubby. Worked in the back all morning, getting stuff pulled from the back room, recycling, taking things to the techies to see what they want to keep and putting other things up for grabs. Turned in the order to get new Realidades 3 books.

AP Testing

Well, only for the second part of the day. We had to close the library at 11am so they could get set up for the AP Art History test. I ran reports all morning to do inventory in the back, and put a bunch of stuff back there to work on once we had to depart the library. Mrs. M and I brought in treats for the classified staff meeting and it was her turn to attend, so I let her and helped Mrs. H get things ready. After the kids came in, we retreated to the back and started to clear out all the cabinets in the back workroom that will be converted over to the Oly store in the fall. We recycled and took some stuff to put in the 'purge' dumpster, only to not find it! They had taken it to dump Friday and not brought the new one in yet! So, at least we got out of the building and enjoyed a brief moment in the sun. I found a bunch of remotes and some that had barcodes on them so I will check them to see if they are still valid or not and if they work on any of our current machines. Got in the pricing on Realidades 3 books and need to find the class counts to decide on how many we will puchase. Got another publisher to send us some trial resources for Conceptual Physics that a couple of teachers want to use next year. Packed up three more boxes of magazine holders for another school and got them out to be picked up and sent over. A great day, a lot done, going home well satisfied.

Forgotten

Monday the 7th - Totally forgot to post yesterday, just too busy after a great weekend out camping in our new trailer! But I did manage to get to work :) Went in early since there was a staff meeting in the afternoon and the library would be closed. Worked on clearing out my shelves of books at my desk to be loaded onto shelves in the depository - and can I get a big 'Halleluah?' *cups hand to ear* 'Ah, thought so!' Yes, all my repair pile is gone, put away and there are no more books waiting on the shelf and the record of who's waiting for repairs is all empty! That is the most exciting news! There were books on there I just didn't want to tackle, that are now tackled and done with! Checked in and out books and redid my bulletin board of books out and how much they cost. Another early day tomorrow!

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Came in to find some teachers had left materials in the back that they were cleaning out, so I went through them and checked in, withdrew (old old books), and cleaned out notebooks recycling them and setting out the empty notebooks for any that needed some and some were taken last I looked! I feel good reusing things like the blank sheets between transparencies - the kids can use that for scratch paper instead of the new computer printer paper, all the paper out of the notebooks went into recycling, cardboard and some heavy paper I will keep for book repair - a good haul all in all :) Processed in six magazines for the library and checked in and out books all day, did a few little repair jobs here and there.

A Day

Today we learned that our student with pancreatic cancer passed away last night - a beautiful girl, just 17 who loved the life she had. We had counselors in the library for the first half of the day for anyone that needed it. My meeting this morning was cancelled and since I was at home, I drove all the way downtown (15 min.) to find out I just needed to turn around and go to school. Did some repairs today, checked out books. Cleaned off my desk from all the repairs - I think I only have about 5 books to go! Packed up another box of magazine holders for an elementary school and packed up more surplus books. Sent out my response for the inventory to our inventory team and Mr. C thought I did a good job of answering the questions raised. Getting ready for AP testing for next week when we won't have access to the library and need to just work in the back so we think we'll pack up surplus equipment and inventory our books.

9 Boxes

That's right, shipped out 9 boxes of magazine holders to other schools today and we still have a hundred or so that we can send out. I hope more ask tomorrow! Worked on the Conceptual Physics books - the rep sent me a link to the high school version, so that's good! Just need to see if the lab manual works with that too, or if there's a high school lab manual we need to get instead. Didn't hear from the Realidades people, so hopefully tomorrow we will. Mrs. H and Mrs. M finally realized I had snuck my birthday past them and today I came in to some presents and a hat that said "Yes, we forgot your birthday!" then they both put on hats that said "Sorry!" on them, it was funny! Then they treated me to a Subway sandwich for lunch :) Checked in and out books here and there, cleared off a billed book. Worked with Mrs. H on some electronic books and sent out some answers to the inventory program I've been helping with to one of our tech crew here in the building.

Lost

Worked on some repairs today, processed in six magazines for the library and one for teachers. Checked out Of Mice and Men. Packed up West's Fahrenheit 451 they had lent since we won't be using them after all and a few other books of theirs that we had as well. Worked some more on the Conceptual Physics books and contacted the publisher to see if they had a high school version. Contacted another rep to see about ordering the Realidades 3 books to go with our 1 and 2 books. Mrs. H had to leave at 2 for an appointment so I kept the library open until my time and was very busy. My sad part of the day was declaring 'lost' the books that were still checked out to two students, one who has already left this world and one that is holding on by the slimmest threads. We didn't feel comfortable asking the families at this time to return books, so by declaring them lost, they are still in the system, but the families won't be billed for anything inadvertently. We talked with our bookkeeper and will ask the counselors to advise us on what to do.