Withdrawn

Today I went through the two sets of books we were considering for withdrawing. I looked through a whole cart and a half of books that my volunteer had pulled. I probably ended up withdrawing about half the stuff she pulled, so that made me happy. Had a lot of interest in my 'post your favorite Dr. Seuss book' so I hope the teachers all enjoy it on Monday. I posted my fave, The Sleep Book so we'll see how many get posted out of class. A lot of teachers too are planning on reading Seuss on Monday morning! Very nice. My supervisor came over today and took some of our everybody books I was withdrawing. I had one nice moment. A class was taking a test and when they got done, they were just roaming the library, so I took a bunch of our fables (398.2's) and put them out on a table in the computer lab and they just went crazy over them. It was nice. Cupboards were bare, so my hubby brought me a Subway sandwich for lunch. That was very nice!

Vandalized

Really sad today. Someone carved into one of our brand new keyboards FUCK U. All I can think of is, that is one angry kid. And on a brand new piece of equipment. That makes me so sad. :(  Had our lovely tech Mr. E in today and so nice to have someone there who knows what is going on and what to do. Made my day to see him here, and to see him working with teachers and students on the new computers. Showing them how to get around and do stuff. Really very nice. Makes me long for the days when we had techs assigned to our building and they could waltz in, wave their magic and ta-da! All was right with our technology. Had my volunteers work on the Language Arts Inventory. As well as weeding out the old stuff in the 300's. Had teachers in the computer lab all day and all morning we were closed for the 8th grade transition meetings, getting them ready for heading on into 9th grade next year at South HS. I had my aides in the back mark out the Leslie mark of the books I'll withdraw. Kept them busy. Worked more on my Dr. Seuss stuffs for Monday. Sent out all school email for everyone to put their favorite Seuss book by their door. My 3rd period aide finished off her Lorax and did an amazing job! I am so impressed by her! We think we will add the Cat in the Hat fish down on the other side of the board then I will post a pic of it. 

The Doctor is In!

Yes he is! Read Across America day is coming so I worked on a new bulletin board for that today. My one aide started doing an amazing Lorax that we'll get into the board too! Can't wait for her to finish! I must admit, that I am more of the 'copy, paste, color print, cut it out' type of person with artwork that amazing! Though I think I made a really good Seuss-type tree. Had guys come in tonight to rig up the other computer labs and borrowed a lot of my carts for that. Checked in and out more books today. Had our OBOB kids meet in the library during their lunch. Had a few decide to quit today. My one strong team is going for it all the way though! Took a look at what I need to have my volunteers do tomorrow. Pulled up garden books to focus on the garden they have outside the windows. Might pull all the Newbery books onto the rack and put the garden books up on the non-fiction shelf up at the front of the library. Busy day tomorrow!

Pallets, Phone and a Plethora of Students

Crazy day! At one moment we had a whole class in the computer lab, another class exchanging science books. Garten had called to deliver pallets and I had to get the custodian to open the locked area, a student needed help with the copier! Yikes! I can only do one thing at a time! Had three classes come in and exchange science books today. Got my pallets. Helped a teacher get a student changed over. Learned about a new attendance system and registered for that. Got a quote from Escape Fiction on some stuff I need. Boxed up the History Alive books that go to Crossler. Worked on fixing up a couple of graphic novels. Laminated stuffs for teachers. Got my everybody books sorted, which ones I will just withdraw and which will go to LMSS for the elementary's to see if they want. Had our DLC kids come into the library just to look at books. And wonder of wonders, I actually caught a glimpse of Mount Jefferson out the library windows today! I knew it was out there somewhere, but thought it was behind trees. Today it was duskyish out and as I was pushing in chairs for the day, I noticed that this white line stretched up, maybe a cloud formation? But then no, I moved to another window, and another, and it was the mountain! Exciting!! Now if they would just chop down a few trees over there.... Met some of our other middle school library media assistants over at the Ram for our sort of monthly PLC. Again, a great time and a great sharing of information!

Looking at Books

Worked today on cleaning up emails. Didn't really feel good, so good to sit in a chair and plod through making new folders, deleting, wondering "did I take care of that one?". Checked out four classes of science books today. Had my aides work on old math books, separating them into what was good, what was bad. Had my boys put away science books and put them in order on the shelf. Started to look at the inventory we need to do with our textbooks and pulling up the subject to see how much was on it. I got out the 6th grade Junior Great Books and checked them against the copies 'available' and I was missing two from the 1st semester. None from the 2nd semester, but for some reason the 2nd didn't come up on my Language Arts search. I will have to let Mr. C know about that. Talked to Garten about our surplus books. They will leave me three pallets and I will have to load them. Hopefully the weather will be good and they will come to pick them up when I call. We have no place inside to put them and nowhere outside with any covering, so all should work. I'll just have to pick a day when it will be nice to do it after we get approval. Got science books ready for pick up tomorrow's check outs. 

New Books

Today I got in my Scholastic order and my new books! Super awesome! I let my aides unpack them and check them off the list. Added in my Books are Fun books and typed up the list to send to LMSS for processing. Too much fun! Stamped them all as well. Got all our books shelved today, the aides were really good about making sure things got shelved. It was pretty quiet today, ready for the weekend!

All Day Volunteer

Today I had my all day volunteer come in and help out. She did amazing and worked hard all day! First I had her pull Ireland books since President's Day is over and Saint Patrick's is around the corner. She got a bunch pulled and displayed. And we all know I love Ireland!  Then she took my over full cart of books that needed to be stripped and got the whole cart done. She really rocked it. I took all the books I repaired the other day and checked to see how they did and probably about 3/4's of them were ready to go back out on the floor. I've tried just checking them in, but they really need to have their status changed to be 'in' so I did that. I had two graphic novels that were missing pages, so I emailed over to Sprague since they had copies and asked them to make copies of the pages and send them to me and I'd tip them in. Maximum Ride #5 the manga she said didn't have anything, but will send me the pages for Ghostopolis. I tipped in a blank page and noted on it that someone had torn out the page, nothing was really on there, and how sad that someone had done that. Had a lot of kids with long missing books and quite a few said they were in their lockers, so I sent them back to go and get them before I gave them a new book. Did some laminating. Had a student bring in a beautiful new copy of The Lightning Thief graphic novel he had missing, so I laminated the cover. He did a great replacement job! Got in four books from Books Are Fun. They bring in items every month or so and give the library coupons for books based on what our staff buys, what a deal! Got four new books for the library! I think I've worked out how to redo the math books with the new sets we got in and still keeping most of the old. Learned today that Garten would like us to only use one size of box to ship out our books. Great, I have like 40 shades of boxes! So, I will give them an option - 54 boxes of books or 12. Their choice. 

Smoke

A fairly normal day today. Mrs. C had her students in the lab and came to tell me two of the computers weren't working, so I messed about with one of them and got it to start booting up, then over to the other and got the screen to come up. Just a minute or two later a student came running over saying the power supply was smoking! I ran over and quickly unplugged it. I didn't see any smoke, but there was a horrid smell going on and the power box was very hot. I took it into my office to keep an eye on it for a bit to make sure it wouldn't burst into flame. That was a crazy start to the day! Had classes in checking out books. Found a couple of lost books today. Changed the call number on some of our oversized books so they could go on the Everybody shelves. They fit there! Had a girl come in and tell me she had turned in her Child Called 'It' book and so I went over to see if it was there, found one. No, wasn't her copy, looked over to the 921 A section and there was a copy of it there (should be under Pelzer) and then went over to the fiction section and there was a copy over there, at least it was in the 'P' section, but in the Pi's, not even in the Pe's. I really rounded on my kids for that. How embarrassed I was that someone I was trying to help, thought we looked crazy because I couldn't even get her book in the right place and I was telling her she was wrong?? So, I think 6th period got the message. I'll tell the others tomorrow. Got in one book of my Scholastic order. How weird was that? And sent off a box of Junior Library Guild books to LMSS for processing. Got all our Dr. Seuss books ready for Read Across America day, Mrs. V is going to check them out next Friday for her classes. Ordered some boxing tape with the help of our lovely Ms. Z. 

Repairs

The library was closed for the day because of NAEP testing. So I had all my aides back rooms trying to work on a few projects back there. I however when not trying to get my aides to properly work, I pulled out all my repair books and set to work putting them back together. Most of them needed spine work, a few tears, a few needed knitting needle repairs. I hope they come out fine when I come back in tomorrow. Did some laminating then attended a Language Arts meeting talking about our lit sets of novels. Gave away some old High Point novels as well. Better to be used than stuck in a box in the back. Get those novels out there!!

Everybody Wins

Went through our old High Point book bins today with our Instructional Coach and took all the books out and sent off the list to our teachers. We will be meeting Tuesday after school to talk about what to do with all those lit sets we have. Had a sub start to weed our biographies. Pulled out books in wrong places in the aide sections again today. Done with our Blind Dates with books and filled that rack with our Newbery books. Only had four blind dates that were left hanging. Had a fire drill this afternoon and I had a group of the science kids in, so they all had to sign their names to my tally sheet with the teacher name and we probably took the longest time to get our tally count in. Went through our 5 packed shelves of Everybody books and weeded them out. Went from five overpacked hard to move books to three and a half nice but wiggle roomish shelves and I could display some of them on the top shelf as well. Got one piece of candy for Valentine's Day from an aide and one card from a student. Dumped the trash tonight. Shut down all computers. Closed up the windows. The library will be shut down on Tuesday for NAEP testing, so the aides will have to keep busy in the back rooms. Thank goodness we have three rooms back there! Three days off!