Wednesday, October 20

I have met my 100 hours as of this posting!

Today I began my hours by helping a class who was using the World Book Encyclopedias to complete a social studies guide. This was a group of 3rd graders who were scheduled to rotate into the media center.  Each group has been given a specific habitat to research.  I was quite surprised by the level of  understanding these students were being exposed to.  They were looking up the elevation, rain fall, and features of a specific habitat.  They also had to answer short answer questions about how habitats are altered because of specific changes. This was a perfect example of an activity that I would want to see prior to a class coming into the media center for my assistance.  That way I'd be smarter than a 3rd grader.

After the class departed, I spent my remaining hour working in the catalog.  The media clerk has been going through the resources and pulling any discrepancies.  A couple of the problems that she left for me to solve were videos that had two copies that were labeled differently.  My task was to determine where they should go and then correct the records.

I also had additional books to assign bar codes to and prep them for addition into the catalog.

Lastly, I processed several new books into the catalog and assigned barcodes.  I did get a change to put out the Dewey Decimal text to remind what of call numbers.

Before departing, I spoke to the teacher I am working with and told her that the class's box book jackets were ready for them and made arrangements to coordinate the high school-elementary school art connection for next week. 

Finally, the media specialist and I conferred about which section I would inventory and set that up for Monday.  We still have the fixed assets video to make before my time ends.

I logged 2.5 hours today.