Processing

October 5- 2 hours and 30 minutes

I stayed after school on the 5 to learn how to process new books into the circulation system. The school began using a new program called Alexandria so it took a little bit of time for the library assistant and librarian to teach me how to use it because they are not quite comfortable with it yet. After they showed me all the steps, I started on my stacks of new books to process. I had to find the best MARC record for the books, stick a barcode on the cover, write the call number in the back of the book, type in the price of the book and the replacement cost. I processed around 50 books. Mrs. Sloop was very happy that I was able to get so many of the books processed. She said that her and Mrs. Sheets never get to process the books because of all the other things that they have to do during the day. I enjoyed processing the books and learned a lot from the process.