3 Day Weekend

Took down the old May calendar today and put up the new June one with all the notices about senior activities and finals. Checked in/out books, but didn't do any repairs today. Amazing that school is almost over, 13 days left! A grateful heart here for our service men and women (including my son) and the sacrifices they make everyday in their time on duty. I will be sure to honor them over the weekend.

Cosplay

Today was the last Manga Club meeting for the year. Since I have an outfit I wear to the renaissance faire, I decided to wear it to be one with the Mangas. Did repairs today, processed in two magazines, checked in and out books. Took off the workroom door bulletin board and put up a 'All library books due NOW!' message. I helped out with the Manga meeting and was awarded a Pepsi for my effort!

The 900's

Did a lot of checking in and still some checking out. Checked in 2 teacher class sets and let her know she was missing some. Went in the back and shifted two whole bookcase sets to make room for Grapes of Wrath which worked out nicely since I had a couple of others I had packed in and now they have some extra room as well. Relabeled all that. Withdrew more of the 900's that Mrs. H went through. And more repairs when I had some time. Got my notice that I'm coming back next year, so I signed it and put it in our office manager's box for processing. Can you tell my granddaughter is still visiting and these posts are very short? I hear her! Goodnight!

Grapes of Wrath

Checked in some of our holocaust sets today, shipped out a teacher request. We got back in our LMSS Lit Set of Out of the Dust and so I checked it all and got it ready to ship back. Mr. C came in and asked me about what was I looking at for a book talk. So I told him it would be about 15 minutes highlighting the sci/fi/fantasy books we have in the library and asking them what books they'd like to see come in. He said he was good with that and s next fall we may do that. We had some students ask to use our back room to shoot their video. Lots of books came in today, Mrs. H and I also worked on the withdrawn/destroyed books. We also got in 32 Grapes of Wrath and I processed them in.

Boxer

Checked out a block class of Animal Farm today and took in a class of American Experience. When I read Animal Farm myself, my favorite charactor was Boxer the draft horse. I still remember his work ethic. Took in books all day long. I did repairs in between everything. Took in money from print accounts, reset computers. Processed in a magazine. Got a lot of the repaired math books back on the shelf today.

Charles A. Sprague Collection

Today I got in a couple more quotes for texts. I also worked our Charles A. Sprague collection. He's the school namesake and we have three shelves of books that I suppose were from his personal library. Some of those had gotten around the library and I checked all the books to withdraw (we don't check them out) and made sure they were all dusted and the shelves clean. I also withdrew our first couple of carts from the 900 section that were pulled and reviewed. We have a new lab going in this summer and the shelves will be pulled off, so Mrs. H had her student intern go through and pull stuff that hadn't been checked out in years. China Today! from the 70's is probably not real relevant anymore! I did inventory on the rest of the semester one math books as well.

Items In

Today I did work on more textbook requests. Had a quote in that had the wrong name on it and the rep changed that for me. Though it got a bit much today, and I cleared out and set in their own place all the orders that are all done, quotes attached and approved. Just about have the spreadsheet all set. So that felt very good. Then it was on to other things like inventory on 'in' items like our Volume 1 books that have come in. Showed Mrs. H's mentor student what I do on book repairs and let her work on some of the pile I have. Cleared off all the extra books off my shelf so they get put away. Checked through all our repair books that they were checked into repair and found some in our unusable pile.

Requests

Got in more textbook requests today. So I contacted more reps for quotes, revamped our spreadsheet adding in publisher contacts and attachments. Finding books getting the right information, adding in requests as well. Checked in a teacher class set of social studies books. Took in print money, checked out/in a class of Algebra 2 students. Inventoried our texts in counts, taking the books that are not in, and claiming them as lost.

Turn Around

One of our aides received a 'Turn Around' award, so today, Mrs. M and Mrs. H were invited to come to the luncheon for these amazing kids that have turned their lives around. I was honored to stay and watch the library so they could attend. I processed 5 magazines for us today and 2 for teachers. We got in numbers from the English department on how many of texts they would need for the incoming humongous sophomore class and I did some inventory on what the report says we have and what is actually on the shelf. After my colleagues left, I moved up to the front desk and stayed up there the rest of the day. I had a substitute teacher read shelves for us. Mrs. H's student teacher worked on the repairs for our Chemcom books. I had aides put away a whole cart load full of books - and I helped with that as well. I also found a big mess in our poetry section and I think it's all straightened out now. Put money in print accounts, checked in two classes of Foundations of Algebra Year 2 Volume 1 and checked out two class sets of Volume 2. Had another student claim they never checked out a book that we are billing them for. We explain to them that for now, yes, that should be a book of theirs since we never check out a book without their student ID. Checked in a set of books that a teacher had checked out. Another teacher set of materials for a social studies class. Billed two students because when they turned in their Foundations books, one was missing the front cover, and the other was missing the front and the back cover. Helped a student print up their brochure and, I'm sure there's more, but it was quite the blur! Congrats to our aide, she really deserved the award and I'm so proud of her!

Arturo or Joanna?

Today I had a student scan his card and it said he was Joanna! So, I took him off to Mrs. K to see what was going on, it seems our Trac-it system was mixed up, so I got his number and Joanna's and checked them out. It seems that Joanna had two numbers, hers and his! So I edited her wrong number to him! Processed three magazines in for us. Answered an e-mail for a math class to come get the Volume 2 books tomorrow. I had a student working on a project and then he was just messing about on the internet, so I sent him back to class and sent his teacher an e-mail that he should be coming. He never did go back to class. Another student wrote on his screen that he couldn't focus because I was watching him, and his last P.S. was unacceptable. His teacher Mr. C was there, and I showed him the screen shot. Mr. C made him apologize to me and I had him come all the way over. He finally looked like he meant it, so I let him go. I helped a student with some Algebra work and I think we did all right! Then I spent the rest of the day working on repairs.