Great Aides
Dorothy Reed is the greatest library assistant. I especially appreciate this since she was hospitalized Tuesday and won’t return for at least 2 weeks. It is the beginning of school. I haven’t finished making student barcode cards, shelf sticks, and labels for the nonfiction section (which we entirely shifted before school started) Our bookfair arrives in 2 weeks and I haven’t arranged all the volunteers yet. We have had 331 people using the library computers this week and I was out sick one day, so that averages 110 people a day. We had nine classes come in and check out within 2.5 hours today. By the end of the day 14 classes had been in. Two I taught using a powerpoint intro to the library (they did all the clicking), another I booktalked, another was a quick story. I had a meeting with a community volunteer leader to discuss the need for our teachers to be prepared before the volunteer shows up at the door. I arranged technology repairs with the technician and discussed the behind the scenes work I’ll do on the yearbook to help out. We had to double-load three buses today and make sure that all siblings were placed on the same bus. I coordinated the little man who brings books in for teachers to purchase for fun. I fixed the copy machine three times. I dashed into four classrooms to check their ethernet cables so they could test using the S.T.A.R and A.R. programs. (which I stayed until 6:16 p.m. typing in on Monday night). I managed to put away two carts of nonfiction books and checked out a HUGE number. Now, I’m home for 30 minutes putting stickers on the library cards. I do so miss my assistant Dorothy. Get well soon!
