Like Lightning

So today I ended up using some funds I still had for ordering a class set of Lightning Thief. Ms. K and M came in and we got a few questions answered, checked a few other places, made an order, got a number, got the PO approved and hopefully the books will be here by next week. Really hoping! My all Thursday volunteer found more lost/missing books so I'm sure those kids will be very happy. Had aides work on checking out two class sets to Mr. R. Another Kercheski list to a math class. Did more status updates on the science books and had the kids put them away. Worked on repairing a Mary Poppins book back from when the Disney movie came out! I want to do a good repair that'll last and not just glue and hope it holds. Deleted a ton of old emails. Asked for more Lightning Thief from some other schools. Middle School Library Media Assistant meeting this afternoon at Salem Public Library. We got all our summer library program stuffs from Mrs. S. Time went by fast and got a tour of the Teen Scene area down there that she runs. Nice! Have some ideas for next year, putting genre's in the separate bookshelves, might see if that works. Might be fun to try!

Something Day

Had two classes come in to check out books. We checked in nearly 100 books today. Showed the new aide around and got him working. I was a bit taken aback when I went into the science room and the two girls were discussing Shades of Grey! Oh my!  Had our new aide help me move TV's. Put the old broken one in the back room and put the nice one up on the tall cart. Got all the science books shelved and started the students on doing copy status for them to make sure they were all done. Had Mr. R come by and pick up books and we talked about ordering and digital audio books. I was thinking I'd like some more since we have a lot of students who really struggle with reading. But they are like, $40 a piece! Maybe I need to put in a wish list for next year! Checked on buying some Lightning Thief with Scholastic, but 40 copies would be nearly $300. I don't know. Maybe. It seems our students and teachers are all set to go on that. Had my OBOB kids in, two weeks to go and we'll have the tournament. Had the back room cleaned out so we could meet and talk back there and not disturb the testing. Did some more copy status, then oh my! Time to go home! A nice risotto and chicken dinner tonight with a lemongrass basil sauce!

The Kercheski Method

Checked out three more classes of books using the Kercheski method. She laughed when we told her that today. I get sheets from the teacher with names and student ID numbers, we check them out to the students and wheel the books on a cart to class. No disruption, no having to come down for books. I love how it works! Had five other classes come in and get books today and first period was so good and quiet and they got progressively worse during the day! Oh my! Had to check in a bunch of books as well and we updated them to make sure they all had numbers. Was given another aide today by one of the counselors. I tried to get out of it. I have three aides that period already not to mention my fifth graders that come in for classes and the students that had been at South for advanced classes. But he insisted. I had the poor student sit at a table and he spent most of the time just staring off into space. Didn't even read. Got in more Lightning Thief books for the Language Arts teachers that want to do a Greek mythology study. I'm up to 23 now, about half way towards what I want. A very busy first day of the last six weeks day!

Synergy Training

Today was just a half day for me, so I attended one of the mandatory Synergy trainings. Interesting, though I will use it mostly for attendance and looked up which classes a kid is in. That was for three hours. Then I had lunch with my favorite Teacher/Librarian Mrs. H and most of the other Teacher/Librarians! Then back to Leslie where I updated copies, finished off a class we were checking out to, packed books up to be sent to Sprague (she asked me to bring them to lunch, but I didn't go by my school before I went to the training!) Cleaned up a few more things here and there and my hour flew by and out the door I went into a beautiful sunny afternoon! Back to regular business tomorrow!

Reports Due

Today was the last day of the middle 6 weeks so book reports were due from my aides. Most of them got something in, but a few didn't. Hopefully they will by Tuesday. Worked more repairs today, shelved books so that our shelving cart was almost empty. Just a lot of books I fine-tuned. Got out our copy of Mary Poppins that was pretty beat up and took a good look at it. Redid the cover, and that turned out pretty nice. The book hinges were bad. Someone had glued the whole back spine to the spine of the book at one point and the book was not staying together anymore. I'll have to think about what I want to do with it.

Long Jump

So today I did a lot of cleaning, even sweeping the carpet in the corners to try and find my earring, but no luck. The carpet edges look much better though! Did more repair work. Sent out an email to about 20 different schools looking for some copies of Lightning Thief for a class or two! Had some great help looking for lost books today from one of my amazing volunteers. After school I helped out at the track meet at South HS. I helped with the long jump and it was great to see these middle school girls go out and jump! 

Lost Earring

Man, I am so bummed. I just got earrings in Kauai when we were there and I lost one at work today. Didn't notice until I got home, so I'm hoping I'll find it when I get in tomorrow morning. Finished off destroying the books that are on their way to new homes. Finished up a lot of repairs. Worked on some reports. I think I'll have my volunteers tomorrow look for lost books. Had a girl swear she had turned in a book. So I looked it up, F Derby. Then I noticed that the book was called Derby Girls, how odd is that? An author uses her name in a title like that? Then I noticed her name was Cross, so we went over to the shelf and by golly, there was the book under F Cross, so I went in and changed the record so that when we look it up again it'll come up under the right name! Checked headphones today (probably that's when my earring came off, I'm hoping...) Had our OBOB meeting during B lunch today and the boys did much better than they did last week! Sent them home with a letter to give to their folks on getting them to Houck for the battle next month.

Sharing is Caring

Today I packed up a bunch of the books that will be heading off to other schools and withdrew them from our inventory and then deleted them. I'm so happy that rather than sitting on my shelves collecting dust they are heading off to newer and hopefully readier pastures! I was able to clear one and a half whole sections of book shelves in the back room! So exciting! I shifted shelves and packed boxes up. A good day of sharing the amazing resources the library has and needs to get out there to students and staff! Did some laminating this afternoon before I left as well!

More Repairs

Gotta love a good book repair and I was able to get some of the books I did on Friday out on the shelves today. Worked my way through most of the rest of the pile on the shelf and did secondary jobs on others. My aides did a great job on checking out books to classes. One class of Schooled  by Gordon Korman and two classes of science book K. I need to take more of my repair scrapbooking paper in for just a few more books. Got more requests in today to send out more books, so I emailed our office to ask how they wanted me to do that. I want to make the transfers as painless as possible for them. Another great day in the library!

Repairs

Happy birthday to me! Since it was my birthday I pulled out my glue and tape and went to work on book repairs today. Got a lot done and we'll check the results on Monday :) I love to do a great repair and had these books piled up waiting, so since it has been pretty quiet in the library I picked today to get down and get glueing! Also sent out my half list of books that I need to get rid of and had a lot of responses for copies. Mrs. H of course grabbed up my Fahrenheit 451 copies! At Sprague we were always short! I see daylight, or at least fluorescent light on the shelves and that's perfect! Better the books go to where someone needs them than sit collecting dust. Got all the books shelved before I left today. All the computers shut down for the weekend. A good day!