ECHS in Today

 Today we had in the Early College High School counselor to talk to our 8th graders about their program that runs in conjunction with Chemeketa Community College. Sounded fabulous to me and quite a few students throughout the day picked up applications. What an opportunity for some of our students. They have even had a few students graduate with their high school diploma and their AA degree. Super cool! So I spent the day with not quite so many computer check outs since the library was basically closed. Finished up the new books that came in by covering the paperbacks. Did get some of my shelving done today. Dealt with another book refund from last April. All in all a good day. But drats, did have to let in lunches. A lunch was so good! I was so hoping B lunch would be too, but that was too much to hope for I guess. 

Sent in Retirement Notice Today

 Yep, hopefully done by the end of April! I'm very excited! I let my PA and my Principal know. I had a blood test this morning, so got in about an hour late, but I had already put in an hour of sick pay for the appointment, so all was well! Had to get everything going again after being off for two weeks. Get the computers all cranked up, lights all on, windows opened back up - I had the shutters all closed over break. Had a quite a few students that needed a computer for the day. Got in two boxes of new books! Huzzah!!! Like Christmas! Had my aides check in books, do their shelving (I didn't shelve any of my fiction, shhhh! but I did do non-fiction) had them set up the books again after I had laid them all down for the two weeks. Had them take some stuff to the office and make some deliveries. Had one aide take down the books I had on my new book table and put up the new hardbacks I just got in. Had an email from a high school on a student who paid for a book a year ago and is still getting a notice.  We got it figured out! Deleted a ton of emails from over the break. Had both lunches in and I survived. That's always a good thing. Lots of welcome back from all the staff. Was nice. We'll see what happens tomorrow!

More New Books

 Wednesday - Went up to the office to mail a book back and there were three new book boxes waiting and the Scholastic Book Fair box waiting! I had to make two trips down to get them all! This was all my JLG books starting from August, so a nice non-fiction haul of new books! Chromebook issues today, had one of our techs in today and he was an old friend from Sprague! It was good to see him today as he worked on my pile of Chromebooks with issues. Read Rez Dog today - a quick little novel in verse. Very good! Thank you Mr. Bruchac! Had both lunches in. I haven't had the cart out and it's been so much quieter in the library. Makes me wonder! Got all the books put away that had been piling up on the shelving cart.

Thursday - Got an email that we're all set for our Time Capsule opening tomorrow and the student that is my aide and also did some research on it is giving a speech! She gave it to me today for practice! She even got to write it and did a great job. I'm looking forward to seeing that tomorrow. They are actually streaming it to the school since our lobby where it is is so small. Got all the new books out today. Not as many Chromebook issues, nor books in. Though I did have a student ask for her books that had been on holds and were ready to pick up. Went to the shelves, looked all over and when I finally pulled up her name, duh, they were on the little bookshelf I have on the table behind the check out counter I use for holds. I felt really silly. And last Friday I was at a party for a neighbor and as we cleaned up, I found out her daughter is a student at Leslie and she came into the library today to get a book! That was pretty cool. A better easier day today.

Three Days In

 Friday - I got in new books!!! I went up to the office and there were three boxes of new books that I ordered back in July! So excited! I got them all checked in. Put in their date due slips. Checked them all out because it's been so long since I ordered them! Chromebook issues all day again and had both lunches in.  It's been a few days, so I might have lost a few things.

Monday - Put up a display for the new books. I had to take all the old books down and put them away. I fell in love with Katie the Catsitter. So adoracatable!! I also wiped down all the tables today, they were getting pretty gross looking. Chromebook issues - I did a test count and yes, spend about 25% of my time with Chromebooks on average. Had both lunches in. Started to read Bridge of Souls - so very good! Love this series!

Tuesday - Gimme some Chromebooks! More Chromebook issues, both lunches in, finished reading Bridge of Souls. Checked out quite a few books and took some in. Got some textbooks for Mr. F's science class. Had to play Jenga with the Chromecarts so I could get to them. Had both lunches in, but didn't put out the Makerspace things today. So, the library was a bit quieter. I did send some kids out again today. Mask issues, eating issues. I get tired of telling them. 

Cleaning Up

 I spent a lot of time this morning putting away books. So many books had been checked in, but I hadn't put any back the last two days, so today was putting books back. Cleaning cobwebs and bug bodies, bits of things, who knows what on the shelving by the windows. Then I was thinking about Halloween and how students ask a lot for horror, scary, and creepy books, so I started to pull up those books to put on the shelves and started making a list off the computer program of those books so when students ask, I can pull it up. Plus I got to 'vet' the books on the list. Such as horrors of war are different from horrors of cemeteries. I did a lot of copy and paste, but still, a lot of work. Had both lunches in and ended up bringing out the other box of beads because so many students wanted to use them. We had our reading support classes come in today, three sets of them and a class from the DLC that went very nicely. At the end of the day Ms. C's class came in because her room was sweltering as again we have HVAC issues in the building. I do enjoy it when teachers come and 'teach' in the library. I get a real sense of what's going on in classes. Makes my heart happy.

142 to 417

 Tuesday - worked on the Schoolwide boxes all day since tomorrow we have our staff meeting and I can have them all ready for teachers to take. I took all the books and put them in alphabetical by title and worked on the spreadsheet and sent that out to teachers so they'd be prepared tomorrow. I ended up with 142 actual titles and 417 books! That's a lot of booty to give to teachers! I'm so excited for them! Had both lunches in. 

  Wednesday - Staff meeting and teachers loved having all the books right out there where they could pick and choose! One teacher came back later and took a box of books and later this afternoon came in to let me know how much her kids loved having new books and were so excited to have them! That made me feel good! I took my stack of Chromebooks that had been turned in with issues and got them all logged in today for tech to come and pick them up. I had 32 that need some loving care by our amazing techs. I cracked up a couple of the library folks when we were talking about getting dates for turning books from overdue to lost and we were saying we needed something out of this world. So I found a Star Date converter. Today, October 27, 2021 was Star Date 47634.44  it made our nerdy sides happy. I handed out Zombi kits to our kids today. I thought they could work on it during lunch, but there were no needles for them to sew them together! So I gave it to them to take home. Chromebook issues all day - most common remark was 'I left mine at home!' Lots going on!

8 Hours

 Who knew? I was cut down to 7.5 hours back under our old principal, and now I find that I am supposed to be working 8 hours a day. No one ever let me know and I don't know how long ago that happened. Just last month? Oh well! Today was activity day so I wore my Bocce Ball shirt and brought in a Bocce ball.  Lots of Chromebook issues today as usual. Signed a teacher up for library time. Went through a ton of emails from last week. Totally forgot to get drug books for Ms. S! Must do tomorrow! Got in my Scholastic book I ordered. Talked with my new Scholastic rep. Checked in a lot of books and put a lot away. Saved some for my aides. Had both lunches in. Worked a tiny bit on the Schoolwide book sorting. A busy day, lots of little pieces and then scoring Volleyball! We won, but just by two points! It was two games to two games and the 5th game we won 25 to 23. Soooo close and some amazing plays on both sides. A dark rainy drive home.

Second Down

 Well, mostly. I do have a Teams meeting tomorrow for about an hour, but then I'm off until Monday! Huzzah! Today I worked on seeing if I really could pack up withdrawn books and put the boxes on top of the Chromecarts and I think it'll work. I finished packing up the Junior Great Books and I thought I had done all the Language Networks, but I guess not. There were a few down below the JGB's. I found that paper boxes are perfect to hold the science books as well. I took the Schoolwide books I wanted to keep (with permission! She said that anything to get the books into the hands of students was good!) so I prepped those to send into LMSS for processing. That took awhile. As did moving Chromecarts around to get to books and to get them in places I could get boxes on top of them. Chromebook stuffs again today. Both lunches in. Had classes come in the last half of the day just to finish up work. Did check in and out books today as well! Glad to head home and it'll still be light when I get there!

One Down, One to Go

 We only have two days of school this week. Which is kind of cool! I wish all weeks were just two days of work! I finished up the Schoolwide boxes today. Started to alphabetize the books on the spreadsheet and thought that might be something someone else could do during conferences. So I stopped. Had both lunches in. Chromebook stuff. Thought about how I might be able to start withdrawing the science books and box them up and put the boxes on top of all the Chromebook carts, I know I can get at least 2 boxes on each cart, so we'll give that a shot! Then off to volleyball and we won all five games! A fantastic end to the day!

Pallets and Schoolwide

 Thursday it was raining! I had to wait for it to stop, then waited for lunches to be over and for the pallets to dry out a little bit. Then I started to load them up. 70 boxes. I had a bit of help from my aides, but I didn't let them pick up the boxes, I didn't want them to get hurt. They helped push the special hand truck I have which really helped me a lot! I did some withdrawing of Schoolwide in the morning, then load, load, load all afternoon. Was so glad to get all those boxes out of the back room, which may fit all the Chromecarts out of the Library workroom Chromecarts so that space will be open again.

Friday I took the few boxes I couldn't get on the pallets and stacked them and I was able to get all the Library workroom Chromecarts into the back. While I did that, one Chromecart was a bit heavier than the others, and it was still filled with Chromebooks bC*! (before Covid). I put in a tech service ticket and told them that if they wanted the Chromebooks they'd have to take the Chromecart along with them! I hope they do! But probably not... I pulled all the boxes of Schoolwide out of the back so I could load more Chromecarts in that aisle. So I worked on those most of the day. I only have five more to go on Monday! Both lunches were in. Lots of Chromebook work again. We talked today about how much time we spend on Chromebooks, but we don't hardly do textbooks any more. We did a survey for work on the work for Chromebooks. So we'll see how that goes. I documented every charger out today and why I checked out extra Chromebooks or gave out another charger. Ready for the weekend!