Thursdays...

I came in this morning thinking it would be a good productive day. Around 10 or so one of the students came and asked me if I was going to take them to Urban Improv. The person who usually takes them wasn't here today and so guess who got to do it? Me. When I asked the administration if they knew about the event and wanted me to take them they said they had forgotten today was an event and they didn't know which students were going. So I asked if they knew, which I didn't, but a call to the councilor who usually runs the program revealed she couldn't remember either. So I set out with 16 students...and now I am off schedule. Also, there was a whole chocolate cookie under the couch.

But the most unexpected thing happened! One of two tutors from some high school have a mother who is a librarian and was getting rid of 250 books. So she gave them to ME! AND they had a fund raiser and are donating the proceeds to my library!! I don't even know how to begin to say thank you to them.

And I also pulled the electric cord out of the back of my computer on a student who wouldn't leave.

Goooaaalll!

I found out yesterday that I exceeded my $200 goal from the Barnes & Noble Fair! We made $209 in book profit! I am so excited! I am so getting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!

Vacation Week

It is so nice to not have to go to work. However, I haven't forgotten about it. I am writing the report advocating for my (and their) first choice of OPALS on my vacation week. And Judy Narosny, Simmons' cataloger told me she would let my library HAVE the deaccessioned World Book Encyclopedias! Also, Ellen Chu volunteered to work in the library 2 mornings a week with me! (I have to figure out how to pay for her... yikes!) And I met Amy Ryan, president of the Boston Public Library. I was very excited about that. Also exciting, Rong says if my automation process turns out to be interesting, we may publish my final report! I don't yet have the numbers for my bookfair but I am hoping we did well. Whatever they are, we did well.

eek!

I forgot Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Books We Need

All Preferable in hardcover:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Kendra by Coe Booth
Crystal by Walter Dean Myers
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
Slam by Walter Dean Myers
Game by Walter Dean Myers
Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
The Outside Shot by Walter Dean Myers
Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
145th Street Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers
Dope Sick by Walter Dean Myers
Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers
The Dog Whisperer by Ceasar Millan
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Specials by Scott Westerfeld
Darkness Before Dawn by Sharon Draper
Daughters of the Moon
Go Ask Alice
Bluford High Series
Secrets of Droon
Superman and Batman (DC and Marvel Graphic Novels)
How to Draw Cartoons
Spiderwick Chronicles
Ender's Shadow
Inuyasha
Naruto (manga series)by Mashasi Kishimoto
Frenemies
anything by R. L. Stine
Drama High Series by L. Divine
Red is for Rememberence by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Silver is Secrets by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Blue is for Nightmare by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Animorphs (any of this series) by K. A. Applegate
Pretties by Scott Westerfield
Specials by Scott Westerfield
Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The Clique Series by Lisi Harrison
A-List Novels by Zoe Dean
The Watchmen by Alan Moore
Books about cars
Books about how to draw

And any of the classics (Bronte, Austin, Dickens, etc...)

Sigh

My tech problems are not improving since now that we have working PCs they a) aren't networked to the printer b) have a new administrative password I don't know c) have nothing to type on. C'est fantastique!

Lollipop $$ ???

I have no idea where my lollipop money disappeared to. I think it was absorbed by my bank account. But at least I know where it went and have kept track of it via a spreadsheet. But somehow it doesn't all work out because my account is still empty. Too empty...
Oh well. I came in to work today and still got hardly anything done. Just took down the book fair.

So I still have this left to do:

• Make a new display for the library board - Barnes & Noble Book Fair! and Check Out New Books!
• Research ILS software
• ILS Requirement Spreadsheet
• work on report of my decision for an ILS system (something tells me they won't care to even browse it)
• write a letter to School Library Journal- and put it on the meeting to-do list
• Announcements for next week
• Adjust shelves

it never ends...

Things to do today:

• Email about getting supplies
• Find out if the school will buy books from the book fair
• Figure out what Demco supplies I need
• Take down book fair posters (cut out pictures) and hang up B&N ones
• Make a new display for the library board - Barnes & Noble Book Fair! and Check Out New Books!
• Take down book fair and count up the money made
• Research ILS software
• take back my computer
  

Arg!

Today did not start well. First, I had to unexpectedly fill in for a field trip for my students. They were good thank goodness but I had no idea what was going on, where we were going, who was supposed to be there and why we were going at all. Then I found out that the book brick program that the school had made me do in the first place, was ripped off the wall. Good thing I have a spreadsheet that I keep track of it on. But literally, I have kept these up all year and they just tore them down because we have visitors? That was supposed to be a place for kids to look and read a peer book review so they could decide what to read next. Not to mention a visual so that they could keep track of how well their grade was doing in the contest. Sigh.

Automation is the furthest thing on my mind now. I don't know if I will ever be able to get around to it since the school continuously want me to do something else, something extra (Today its "please make a professional development section in the library along with one for parenting). And did I mention I literally had to ignore students to keep them out of the library long enough to actually do some work on my computer while they were pounding down the door? I also neglected to mention the internet being extremely slow.