J. V. Inspirational Shelf

Came in to find my drop box full of books this morning. That was sweet! We ended up checking in about 100 books today. Got all of them put away too! Had a student work off the last of her book fine today, so proud of her! And another student only has $4 left of hers! Sent off the box of Scholastic books to get processed  for the fall. Yeah! I love new books! Got in the 'Jan V Inspirational shelf' books today, so got them all put on a shelf in the back, labeled it and took a pic then sent it to her! Some awesome resources I hope our teachers use! Did more repairs and some more numbering of series. A pretty awesome day all around!

Memorial Day Weekend

Lots of students gone, but still lots going on in the library. Did more of the same for series and repairs today and had a great time with students. Got back around 80 books yesterday and another 80 today, so numbers are going down! Thank goodness! Had my evaluation today and passed! Yeah!! Looking forward to a great year next year!

Last New Books!

I was so excited today when my Scholastic order arrived! $600 worth of new books thanks to our lovely staff, students and parents buying from the book fair! I got them all checked in, stamped, written up to send off to LMSS. Sweet!! A perfect way to end the day! I will send them to LMSS for them to have them ready for when we come back, and I also got two brand new audio books! Excited!! Did more repairs today and spent a bit of time on the Hatchet series by Gary Paulsen. I learned we had all 5 books of the series. The three Hatchet books we had were in rough shape, so I swapped them out with the books we had for a lit set in the back. Those are pretty nice and Perma-bound as well! We had two of The River and one of the Brian's Return, which are actually the exact same book! It did look nice when I got all done with all of them and now I know the series order and the students will be able to see it as well. Put a few more books into the lit books in the back and almost done with the 'P' section. I'm liking how nice it looks! Cut out some bookmarks myself today while watching students. Have a lot of them in finishing up assignments. A cheery day with NEW books! What could be better??

Again

Pretty much the same as yesterday. Did more LIT books to put in the back. Did some repairing, renumbering series. More books came in, but still down a lot. Quiet day.

Keyed

Pretty quiet in the library today. I continued my work on numbering series, cleaning up books that need to go in the back so we have more room on the shelves. Came across a book today that looked like some kid had keyed it. It scratched half the back cover, went through into the boards and the spine was all keyed as well. I've noticed a few books recently that look like someone had poked them with a pencil, but this was outright vandalism. In fact, now that I think about it, I should really report it to our security person. I'll do that tomorrow. Did some major laminating this afternoon, got the set of bookmarks done I made from the topo maps this week. I have a student working off a fine so I'll have her cut them out tomorrow. Some book covers and a poster for the DLC. Got the last of the math books numbered and set today from the student working off her fine. I put them all back on the shelf. Another great day in the library!

Clearing House

Today we began to clear house. All the books down from the tops of the shelves. The masses (Hunter, Flanagan, 39 Clues) all on their shelves and in the back room. I started going through the shelves and looking at the books. Some I delegated to the LIT shelves in the back. Changed their Call number and put LIT stickers on them. Numbered series that hadn't been done yet. Got through nearly to the B's. Got all books put away, still a lot to go. Showed them how to move shelves for when they get too packed. Took my 'new' rack and off loaded it and put it in the back. Sent two Inheritance (Paolini) to Walker via LMSS. Sent back some borrowed lit sets back to McKay. The library is now free of testing!! Huzzah! So it is good to be back to normal!

Maps!

Very cool topo maps! My maps arrived today from the Oregon State Library and I was so happy! I spent the last part of the day cutting them out to make bookmarks for next year! So awesome!! A fairly slow day today, last day to check out books. Did lots of here and there stuff. My student that is working to pay off her fine came in and got the rest of the Looking for Pythagoras books ready for me to put back on the shelf. So I did that today. Got to chat with a lot of students today and that was as always a lot of fun. Put out a notice for three books I have I don't need. Two of Inheritance (Paolini) and one of Eona (Goodman). They are in great condition so I hope someone takes them. Took four of our Legend (Lu) books and made them a lit set in the back room, also took Lions of Little Rock (Levine) and made those a lit set as well. Just don't have the room on the shelves! Was waiting for my supervising Librarian to come in this afternoon, but he didn't show. I'm sure something came up. 

Mrs. V's Memorial Shelf

I got all the books listed that Mrs. V gave to the library for a professional section. Got them all boxed up with a list and sent them off today. I think she'll have to have an entire shelf for all of them! I might have to make a plaque! Had three math classes come in for books today. The library looked in great shape from the open house last night and I guess it went really well. I had some students come in to listen to The Outsiders on CD audio, but the player didn't work, so I ended up quickly putting speakers on one of our search computers and the four students gathered around and listened just out in the library. It was pretty cool. I might do a day once a week putting on an audio book and playing it during lunches. Put up a new 'person of the day' with Stephen Mather to highlight my National Parks display. Worked with one of our on the edge students today. I saw what she wrote for her autobiography and it really opened my eyes to her issues, so I talked with her and I think we connected. I hope so. Worked on a new project, my book journal for students to flip through and see what books might interest them. So I did the first page. Half a page for each title and the first page turned out great. Tomorrow is the last day to check out books and today a lot of students were getting books for the next week. Getting to the end!

Company's Coming

That's right! The 6th grade open house is tonight and I spent nearly 2 hours cleaning up the library to get it ready. I asked if they wanted me to come, but I never heard back, so I checked all the books up on top of the shelves and replaced as I thought necessary. Straightened up all the shelves. Added in a bunch of book ends. Put together the Salem Public Library signs with flyers and the bookmarks for the Axis360 App we have. Our Instructional Coach made a couple of signs along with her own find of free downloads of two books a week for students. It should look nice. We had a Job Alike in the library so I set up the computer for that as well. Had two classes in to pick up math books today I forgot about! Luckily I could go in the back quick and grab a stack and take care of them. Stamped all the books Mrs. V gave us for professional use and started the list to send to LMSS. Cleaned up my office from the big mess from Monday's cart sets for the two things we had going. Talked to LMSS about the report I was trying to get for the students that had out Cells and Heredity from February and we couldn't get the data right for that, so Ms. D is going to work on that more. Set out more math books for my student who is working off her fine. She's doing a great job. A day full of other things that kept me hopping all day!

Topo Maps

Today it was crazy busy. I had two carts in from Mrs. V, the science guys worked out how to get Mr. H some books so I had a cart of science books come back, then to check out to Mr. R just a class which gave Mr. H enough for him (did I ever check out more books to him? Come to think of it, I don't think I did...must do tomorrow!!)  Cleaned up some of the mess I made from hooking up technology to the extra cart from yesterday. Did some ordering on Scholastic so we'll have new books when the kids come back. Sent a math book to a parent who works at South, but the student came in this afternoon and checked one out by himself, so I emailed the parent and told him to just send it back. Lots of books came back. I asked if they would like me to come tomorrow night for the 6th grade open house for the kids entering 6th grade next year, but didn't hear anything back. A very nice lady from the Oregon State library is getting me some awesome topo maps to use! I think I will cut them up for book marks! They should be very cool. They are old and they have another set they are keeping, but I will gladly take the ones they said would be for crafting or art projects. Too cool!