Rows

Lots more packing today, I nearly have another whole row. All the metal shelves are now packed (except for a few stragglers) and started to take a row from the world languages/math shelves so I could turn the other rows so they don't project over the end of the shelf. Getting things about done back there, only about 11 working days to go until we're out of there.

More books...

Starting to see cart loads come in from teachers, had three cartfuls come in I checked in and put away. A box of surplus books came in from a teacher's room she had culled them from. Packed up more books. Had a student bring in a replacement book and he had purchased a paperback edition of just the first half of the book! So we went through his list and I gave him all the correct ISBN numbers so he'll be sure to get the right books to replace the ones that got stolen. He also wants to donate his novels to replace the two novels he owes us, so we'll see what Mrs. H says. I worked on our book list in Trac-it. We have several catagories of subjects that deal with World Languages, so I had to retag them all to World Languages and it looks a whole lot better. Processed in three magazines for us and two for teachers.

Come on Down

Tuesday the 29th - More books coming back today - processed in 4 magazines for the library. Packed up more teacher resources and got almost done with the first set of shelves. Put away books as well.

Visitors!

A cheery "Mrs. Willer, you have visitors!" rings out from Mrs. H and yes! My son and daughter-in-law and two adorable granddaughters come across the library! I'm so glad they came to visit :D I went around to a couple of places with them and showed my oldest granddaughter how many books we had in the back! We had fun! Other than that, I packed up 24 boxes of teacher materials today and processed in a magazine, checked in and out some books and am ready for Memorial Day weekend!

Evacuated

Today after the assembly, we had a small explosion in one of the trash cans on campus. To be sure there were no others, our principal decided to go ahead and close school for the rest of the day while they swept the building and grounds. We spent quite a bit of time out at the football stadium while they made decisions. After the students were gone, they told staff that they were reasonably certain that we would be safe here, but anyone that felt they needed to could go and work at home. I stayed and packed up our teacher materials. 16 boxes are all packed and I cleared off two sections of shelving on the metal movable shelves they are on. 

Like a Squirrel

I hoarded today. All the books on top of our depository are now all safely bedded down for the summer. Didn't have to give any away though I still shifted some shelves today. I have snuck those books into cubbies and crannies and they may have to come out next fall, but for today, I'm rather pleased with my squirrelyness! I hope I can hunt them down in the fall and they won't go to seed! (Since some of them are horticulture books, it may just happen!) Cleaned off the top of the shelves so that all the empty boxes are on one shelftop now and just a few Baker and Taylor boxes on another. Got all the Life magazines down and a bunch of magazine holders out for teachers to take if they choose (though I did keep some for us). Processed in six magazines for us and two for teachers this morning too! Called a mom to say that no, the book they had paid for is still missing, but if it shows up they will get a refund. Got all the yearbooks put away and bedded down for the summer as well (except for four that I'm plundering to get two good ones out of the four cut up ones.).

Shift

Sometimes you just know you shouldn't ask! I asked the math head if she still wanted to keep 249 Analysis books and she said 'sure!' so now I have to find room for them all! So I spent the day shifting over the FuncStatTrig books, then all the Foundations of Algebra books and relabeling shelves - which they all needed anyway, so hopefully tomorrow I'll shift the Calculus then have room for the Analysis. I already made room for the spanish version of the Foundations books. I had some of them on top of the shelves and everything on top needs to go for the bond projects this summer. Got some boxes to start packing up teacher resources too!

999

Well, or at least very close to that. Mrs. H decided to get rid of all the old 2010 and 2011 magazines so we don't have to pack them for the summer, so I withdrew 999 (+/-) magazines out of Insignia today! Whew! Got done at the very last of the day and sent an email to teachers to come and pick them up, or they will get recycled in a week. This will give them a chance to get magazines for their rooms. We will still keep the 2012 issues and rebuild!

Inventory

Today I pretty much finished up working on the inventory we did during the AP testing. I checked over the sheets. Found a few errors like, a Prentice Hall Literature Gold was actually tagged as a Platinum edition! Straightened up the stacks and had to label some stacks that I'd never done before and reconfigured some others since we had new books added to some sets. A good day and a piece of cake from leftovers from the meeting the night before!

Cleaning Up

Spent most of today cleaning up the back from the stuff we had back there during AP testing. Lots of notes laying around that got taken care of. We had another school request Brave New World a month ago, so I asked the teacher to return copies. None have really come in, so I looked at his schedule and saw that the class that was using it was just about done for the day, so I raced down there and knocked on the door and pleaded for five more copies so the school could get them in, and voila! I walked away with five copies! I called immediately and the textbook librarian over there actually drove over to pick them up. I was so happy that we finally got that together for them. It had been crazy with AP testing going on. Had one of our aides look for all the shelving we have scattered all over the back and he piled them up for us. Processed in a bunch of magazines and got them out. Checked in three class sets of books today so I hope our 'books out' numbers are going to start heading down! Worked on the inventory sheets that Mrs. M worked on and listed books that were supposed to be in as 'lost.' Still have a lot to do. Mrs. H also decided to get the old magazines out the door instead of keeping them since they will all have to be packed, so with the table now all clean, I can start withdrawing all the 2010 and 2011 copies and put them out for teachers to use in their classes. We hardly ever use the old copies, so it is a good call.