Full Day in the Library

Nov. 18- 7:20-4:20- 9 hours



When I first got to the library today, I counted all the shoe boxes that were around the library the second grade had packed for Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child. We had 58 boxes which is awesome! Mary had a meeting to go to today so I was pretty much on my own, especially when Mrs. Sheets (assistant) was helping in other classes and doing the medicine.



I helped with circulation from 7:45 to 8:50. At 8:50 I went to Mrs. McLaughlin's 3rd grade classroom to help with their Solar System projects. I helped two boys with their slide show on the moon by adding pictures, showing them how to change the background, and how to add transitions for each slide. I also helped two girls in the computer lab type up labels for their solar system poster. I helped the third graders until 10:00 then I went back to the library because the doors were closed because Mrs. Sheets had left to go help in the 4th grade classroom she goes to everyday.

Back in the library I shelved some more books, helped the lingering students with checkout, and read an AR test to an at-risk third grader.

When Mrs. Sheets read a Thanksgiving story to a group of kindergartners I read two non-fiction books about turkeys to a little girl that is a Jehovah's witness. She was very interested in learning about turkeys and was able to point out some differences between the wild turkeys and the farm raised turkeys.

I wanted to see how to run overdue notices so Kaye got out the Alexandria manual notebook. We figured out how to get the overdue list, but we only wanted students with over dues not teachers and it was giving us both. We tried several things, but could not quite figure it out so I called Alexandria tech support to have them help figure it out. Turns out I needed to change some of the Boolean operators in order to get the students and not faculty. I printed these out then delivered them after Kaye went through them and made sure that they were all right to give out.

I continued to work on sorting the magazines boxes and finished all of the Teacher's Helpers. I had to create new labels for some of the boxes and added new boxes for the 2009 and 2010 years.

Once Mary came back from her meeting, I met with her for about 30 minutes to discuss what I have done for my hours so far and what other things I could do to earn some hours. I also asked her if it was possible if I could do some weeding for her before my hours were over. She said yes and was going to set up a day for her "book lady" could come in to help. This will be on Tuesday.

The last thing that I did for the day was export the libraries lost books in Destiny into a Numbers document and then deleted them from Alexandria. When the circulation system got switched to Alexandria this summer, all of the materials got transferred from Destiny, including lost books. The problem was that they were not being shown as lost in Alexandria as they were in Destiny so they always showed up in searches. That is why they needed to be deleted. Mary said it was a great help because the directions she had, were not as clear as they should have been and she would of ended up having to call tech support.

The last three days I spent in the library were great! I did not want to go back to the classroom after experiencing the library full time. I am very anxious and excited about being in my own library in the future.