Books to Movies

With the Oscars last night, I decided to do my books into movies calendar, so I tore down the old one and got the new one all up. It's so easy when everything has been done several times! I just wish we had more of the books on hand, three are checked out (Eat, Pray, Love; Dear John; The Last Song) and one is missing (The Lightning Thief) but we still had enough to get the point across. I even had a book on Britain's Monarchy that has a fabulous picture of George the VI for the King's Speech (even though it didn't come from a book - still worthwhile to display!). Checked out three class sets of Algebra Connections V2 books today so three sets of V1 in, money into print accounts, other various books in and out. Showed the shop students how I wanted the shelves on the oversize book case. Another day of CIS today and I helped these seniors work on the same course planner as the ones I had on Friday. Had a couple of parents call on books that have been billed and we went through that with them.

CISeniors

Got some more books ready for check out and checked out a class set of Algebra books. Did a lot of individual check ins and outs. Mrs. M and Mrs. H rearranged their desks up front and it seems to be working better. I helped Mrs. H last night a little bit. Worked on the oversized books, gluing hinges, prepping the laminated covers. Redid the shelves on the cart to just two shelves instead of three. I think we might have just enough space for what's left in the back! Had the seniors for CIS this morning and had to get them to finish up their courses since it will be the last time in the computer lab this year. Spent some time cleaning up the library since we have a competition using the school and they will be in the library as well, so I made sure computers were off, all chairs pushed in, magazines arranged where they belong, books reshelved from the science class looking up elements. It all looked good when I left for the weekend.

Delay

We had a two hour delay, but I went ahead anyway and went in so the kids would be able to come in and access the library if they needed to. Worked on the oversized books, taking covers off another 20 so Mrs. M could laminate them for me. Checked out a class set of America: Pathways and other books in and out as well. Helped Mrs. H move around furniture up front to reposition desks for her and Mrs. M.

Überlebt

Today I worked on getting the translations for our german books. When we got some carts from a clean up of the german room, we decided to send them to LMSS so we could have some german library books in case someone needed one to read. They sent them back asking for translation, which means the information for them to catalogue it. So, I had a great time searching out the publishers, copyrights, illustrators, subjects. So I filled out all the forms for each book and sent them back. Most of them were fairy tales and a few other classics. One was a book on a mountain climber called Überlebt. That means 'survived'. Checked in and out more books, processed in 5 teacher magazines and 3 for the library. Sent a list of books out from Ms. A's students for 4 different books. Touched base with a teacher on some books we have stored in the back. Asked the shop teacher if we could have some kids redo the shelves for our oversized books. Put money into print accounts.

Sore

Sore on two counts, my muscles from snowshoeing on Saturday and from my sore throat. Did more work on more of the oversized and taped up the sides, corners and spine ends of a set of books. I've filled the whole entire one side of the rolling cart, so another side to go! Helped a dad looking for his daughter's lost book today. Checked in and out books. We had another migration over the weekend and I was glad that most of the hoopla was done before I got there. Mrs. H started my computer and it was almost all ready to go by the time I arrived. Put money into print accounts. There was a staff meeting after school in the library so I went into the back with my books for the last half hour of my day.

Green are my Labels

Worked a lot on the oversize books today and got more done, more than halfway done with that project. Taught a kid how to use the search computers, checked in books, checked out books. Got some kids to return 1st semester books which is very excellent! Threw in liferings for the techs.

Full Moon

Must be. Kids, adults, everyone was crazier than a librarian with new books, which by the way, we got in two boxes of our books we had sent to LMSS. I put the hardback laminated covers on and took the cart to Mrs. M to check in and put out on the shelves. Checked in a class set of American Government books and various others. Got in a couple of Algebra Connections books and sent them off to South. Mostly worked on the oversized books and finished up the repairs on the set I was working on and did some of the books that don't need laminated covers or anything but the new barcodes on. Contacted Pearson to see if we can get access to some online teacher resources. Straightened up the biographies since they were very plowed through by Mr. S's class.

Please Return

Got in the rest of the math books Mr. O had requested so I let him know they were here. FedEx came and picked up the books we sold to Follett yesterday. I had a request for online access so I asked our teacher if she had it, and she doesn't, so tomorrow I will contact the rep to see if we can do that. I printed out more return books slips and got those all designated so our aides could deliver them. We had borrowed some Algebra Connections books from South HS at the beginning of the year, and now they need them back. We had two in, so I sent those off and I made slips asking our students to please return the South texts they had and we'd replace them with a Sprague text since we had some extras, so I hope they get turned in starting tomorrow. Processed four teacher magazines and eight for the library. I had a student return an AP Biology book and the end was all ragged, so I let him know that I'd have to put some tape and time on it and he'd get a bill for $5. He said that it was all right, he could see it. With all the work the techs are doing to our Central Server, Mrs. H got a flash drive and we backed up all our files in our document folders. I then took it, labeled it and put it in one of our locked cabinets. I got more oversized books out on the shelf and we had a book display that could sit on a counter, so we put that out by our check out computer and we'll display an oversized book for the kids to walk by and see and maybe get a bit intrigued by. Mr. S is having his students read a biography. It has to be over 300 pages and the person has to be deceased, so I got to go through some of our books with the students today and that was a lot of fun.

Follett

Today Mrs. H was walking out the door as I came in, her kiddo was ill and she was off to go home and take care of him. She suggested we move the 921 rolling shelves over to my side of the library by the blue lab, so he did that for us and helped keep the kids honest with passes and signing in, and read shelves. We got in two boxes of supplies, one had our new tattle tape, 2 boxes of it, and one with some new fiber tape, sharpies and some batteries. We got another box of preview books for Mr. O, so I let him know they were here along with the Connected Math books and he came and got them 4th period. A girl needed a book, and I discovered that when we put the bio shelves over, we had turned one around! So we flipped it. Ms. O loves that we put the shelves there. I worked on some minor repairs to our America: Pathways books for a class coming in during 8th period. I hate to check out battered books, so I quickly did some and had enough done when the class came in. Mr. C brought his class in to check out Martian Chronicles. Mr. C from Follett came in looking for books to sell or buy. I told him I didn't think we had anything, but remembered our old Bedford Readers that we don't use anymore, and he said yes, they were buying at about 3 times the normal buy price, so I called Mrs. H and she gave the go ahead to sell them, so I did. We checked on 3 other books, but they were a no go. I was the last one in the library, so closed it down and headed home.

Early Bird

Since today I had a dentist appointment, I switched shifts with Mrs. M and went in early. I got in at 7 and got the library ready to go for the day. I had to text Mrs. M and ask for the password for the search computers! She texted it back to me :) Checked out kids, put money into accounts and sat up front until Mrs. M come in. Then I headed back to my desk. I worked on the covers for the oversized books and glued the hinges of the books so they'll sit until tomorrow. Had a class come in to pick up some Algebra books and I picked the wrong set, so Mrs. B said, no, they needed this one, and I went and got it, and it was the wrong one again. *sigh* so one of her kids was there and he went back and pulled the right ones while I checked in the wrong ones. Finally we got it right. My fault entirely I checked the e-mail, but didn't read it very well. After I got all the books glued and set, it's time to go!