Monday, September 27

I worked 3.5 hours today.  2.5 hours were in the elementary media center and 1 hour was in the high school media center.  When I went to the elementary media center, the media specialist asked me to do some reviewing of awarding winning books that she was thinking that she would add to her collection.  I used the book index with reviews in Galileo to read reviews on the books that she had chosen.  There were 5 or 6 books on her list that appeared to contain some content that might not be appropriate for elementary.  Most of these books were geared for pre-teens and teens and had some violent, teen romance, and discussion of extra marital affairs contained in them.  As such, we talked about whether these should be accessible to K-5th graders.  I was able to find all of her titles on Galileo, so that was very helpful.

While I worked on this the media specialist and clerk were working on adding students to an existing database.  This new database has been added as a new duty to the media specialist and the ladies were having some difficulty getting the names from one database into their XL file.  I only mention this to make the point that the duties of the media specialist are increasing and more and more technological knowledge is necessary to fulfill all responsibilities.

I also had the change to cut our the word LIBRARY (30 times) so that as classes are rewarded for good library behavior, they can receive their next letter.  When a class has all letters and can spell Library, they get to pick something out of the treasure chest.

Once I had finished both of these tasks, I helped shelve the remaining books that were returned today.  The ladies like to start the day with all of the books back on the shelf and ready for the next reader.

After I returned to my home school, I shelved the books the were waiting.  Senior project is underway so there were a few more nonfiction books than are usually on the cart.  However, there's always 3 times the fiction than nonfiction.  I was surprised to see that Suzanne Collins has an additional book in her "Hunger Games" series.  My list of books to read is adding up.  I have been checking out 3 elementary books each time I go to that library, so I can read more of those, but I haven't found the time to read the longer titles from the high school.