Running

Another great day in the library. Worked on my Black History Month first display with a 'Where did they come from' theme. The aides are nearly all trained and I even had some today checking out Kercheski style for me today! Got them out on the shelves and starting to do shelving. Still have one aide I haven't seen yet. Got my Scholastic books all stamped and sent off, then got the call that my Girl in the Blue Coat book is not approved for middle school. Rats!! I had only stamped the top, so that wasn't too bad. I looked up the high schools and found two that didn't have it, so I asked if they wanted it and they said yes. Good for them. Glad to help! Though I'd rather have the book in my library!! Did some laminating. Took down my cooking display and will put up a 'blind date with a book' something or other starting tomorrow. Maybe a set of dinnerware? Candles? Might have to give it a try! Talked with Scholastic today and got my next book fair all set up and ready to go. Took three more class sets of math up to Mr. G today. Had some students in the halls at lunch. Two girls were opening and closing the boys bathroom door by the library. Ms. V and I went out there and they were from lunch, what were they doing down the hall??? And messing about with the door of the boys bathroom??There are bathrooms right by the lunch room?? Then three boys came running down the hall and I chased after them up the stairs. Two disappeared, one went to his locker. I headed back to the library and Ms. C saw me and I told her what had happened. After work I helped again at the wrestling game and got to just keep time this time (sooo easy!) and as I left to come home, Ms. C said they identified the students from the cameras and that I had really picked up and ran after those boys! She was impressed! Ready for a new day tomorrow!

New Start

Hadn't heard anything about passing out schedules, so I moseyed on down to the gym and ended up handing out the new schedules for 20 minutes or so. Today was the first day of the new semester. I have eight aides! What am I going to do with them all??? I will have to be organized! Today I had five of them working on the Order in the Library shelving program, and most of them got done, or nearly done. I also gave a tour of all the places in the building where we keep books! I worked out the shelving sets for everyone and I had two repeat aides! So that was nice to have someone who knew what they were doing! I covered more new paperbacks, including Chi!! So excited to have my favorite kitty in the library. Ah, oh. My Bad Kitty is looking at me...  Got in my Scholastic order today, so excited to see our new country books!! They really do have a nice set!! I got in about twelve? Myanmar, Tibet, Nepal and others and they are all 2017 editions! That should help get my non-fiction average age up a bit! Nice, slick, 144 pages, perfect for our students for research! Checked out 'Kercheski' style for three math classes and finished up one more that a student had started. 

JLG

Today I got a call from JLG - Junior Library Guild and they really are very nice folks and I had their services at one point, but decided to stop. But today since our focus has been on updating our non-fiction, I decided to listen and ended up purchasing two of their non-fiction for middle school packages. It will help keep me on track and they always have great books. So I am looking forward to it. I can change the book they send if I want, so that's a handy feature. That will take nearly all the rest of my extra budget, but there will still be a bit left in there. I think it will be good for the school. The rest of the day I started covering the paperbacks. Then I got ready for our first OBOB meeting. I had nine kids during A lunch, but only one for B lunch. So we'll see if any more are interested in the next week or two. It was the end of the first semester today, and as the students began to leave, someone pulled the fire alarm ~~~!! So we all got some nice afternoon air while we waited to be cleared to go back inside. I got my new ALA posters all laminated today. Gave my departing aides a pick from my box to say thank you for all their hard work. Found out I had a ton of aides for next semester, ten in all! I had four that I questioned because they don't check out books! One girl even said she DID NOT want to be in the library - they moved her, thank goodness!! I worked the wrestling match again today with no help! I did my best, and the ref said I did good. I am off tomorrow, so see you on Monday!

Reset

This morning I was getting ready for work and realized that I thought I had a class coming in during lunch! So NO Battle of the Books! I had to change my signs and pull my announcement and write a new one. At least I noticed before school began! So, did two more book talks today and got all the hard backs all done. Started to work on the paperbacks, but didn't get too many done. Had quite a few students in today working on projects since grading is on Friday. Not much else to report! Just one more day this week for me!

Book Wrestling

Nearly a perfect day of nesting with my new books! Putting in strips, putting in due date slips. Finding my series and numbering them. Happy, happy sigh of delight! Did two book talks today as well, talking about how many books are out there. We have about $3,300 worth of lost books since September, and about $48,000 of overdue books!! That's a lot!!! I put up signs for beginning Battle of the Books tomorrow. Put in an announcement for that for tomorrow. Sent off a book to another school. Got a couple in. I also helped tonight with our wrestling program by helping keeping score! It was fun, but I have no idea what the ref saw when he would hold up his arm for red and two fingers for points! I just put it on the scoreboard. Which was fun to work with the electronic score board too! Luckily I had a fellow next to me that kept me on track - it would have been chaos without him, I'm sure!!

They Are HERE!!!

Yes, my five boxes from Baker and Taylor showed up today and I am ecstatic!! They didn't come until 6th period, but they are here! I got them all checked in, and even checked out one to my 6th period aide! Then I got some others ready for a book talk tomorrow! Yeah! Happy Dance!! Before they came, we did check out books to two classes today. I finished up covering the books from the two boxes that came Thursday. I covered some more of the Spanish 2 Workbooks. Sent in an order from Scholastic using nearly all the money I made from the fall book fair. Got some nice 900's books from there as well. So excited to have new books! Now I just hope we get my last two orders in before the end of the school year!

Books On Shelves

Didn't get in my five boxes but did get done my two, nearly and got them our on the rack. Put up some penguin books for Penguin Awareness Day. Helped get some resources for teachers today, some voice recorders (our lovely IC brought those to the attention of the teacher) and we didn't have dictionaries students could speak into but we did have some that work phonetically! So they took those after I put new batteries in them. Stripped the new books, put date due slips in, covered the paperbacks. Our of 53 books I only have about 7 left to finish. Had an aide help me move tables back to ADA format. Love my job!

Two plus Five

BOOKS!!! BOXES of beautiful BOOKS! I got two in today and another five are on their way to the school! I was so happy all day!! Finished up my orders for Baker and Taylor and PermaBound. I told them to cap them at $900 each, so that should about finish up my budget for the year! Found some great new country books and was really happy to get those on order. I was very happy and our PA said I did a great job with those! So hopefully I am done with ordering for the year! Did some laminating and had to change the film rolls. Had to let our acting office manager know that I put in the last set, so we probably need to order three more. I still have Scholastic money to spend and our replacement account, so I will look at that as well. A very happy clicking my heels up and singing a happy little tune!

Mom's 86th

Today I took off at 11:30 (half my shift) to spend the afternoon with my mom. So, I spent a lot of time working with students and helping them get the books they need. Putting away math books. Tried to work on my order. Cleaned up my office a bit since I would have a sub for the afternoon! So very grateful I got to spend this time with my mom. It was worth it!

Computer Day

I think I spent nearly all day on the computer looking up books to order. We did have two classes in to check out math books, but that was pretty quick and easy. Left for our LMA meeting at 3 up at Waldo. We talked about ordering, some changes to our library program, and how things are going and deadlines! Just need to tweak some of the odds and submit.