Weekly Reflection 7
This week (May 13th) was a somewhat slow week for new progress on items. The day was primarily filled with bouncing from task to task as necessary, though mostly changing call numbers on books and in the system.
Another short project that happened was to prep some class materials for Erin. Unfortunately, I did not get a picture of these, but it was stapling together the cover, first page, summary, and a response form for a significant number of the books from the spreadsheet from last week. Some were missing a piece of the packet (cover, summary, first page, etc), which meant that I had to look them up and print them. These were used by interested students to help select the Eagles Reads list for next year.
I also assembled the start of a display poster for springtime non-fiction reads. This ultimately ended up looking like a Pacific Northwest nature nonfiction poster, which is a good idea for the area. The students picked out the overall design, but I glued together what had been picked out by the time I left. I found the book covers, printed, and cut them out to be the approximate same size. The title had already been glued on.
A couple smaller incidents that occurred were a student needing graphic novels to read for his educational requirements (though he had an interesting comment about graphic novels not normally being allowed in his house because it wasn’t “real reading” – I had heard about this phenomenon in my Children’s Literature class, but had never heard it in real life!), and one of the graphic novels having an upside down cover that needed to be fixed. I mostly followed Erin around while she did the reader’s advisory portion of this, though that in and of itself was educational, since it gave me the opportunity to observe what she picked out for the student with very little time to think. (I also followed her around while she did RA for a student wanting dark fantasy).
Finally, the maker space and non-fiction sections are being swapped. This will put the non-fiction books more in the center of the library, rather that hidden away in a corner, and will provide a slightly less high-traffic place for crafts.
The weeding, however, has been completed for the moment, and once all the call numbers are changed in the system (including more breaking of Dewey to better serve students and keep similar concepts or eras together), and once the section is moved over, this project will be essentially done, so that’s super neat!