Author: jjadmin

The beginning of the week was rather slow. I continued with my project of organizing the reference section of my school’s library. I was referred to a student and an exceptional education assistant by the LIS for an audio recording of Monster,which I have in my classroom library. The school library owns the book but not the audio. I was excited to help, and happy that the student, LIS, and assistant approached me for resources that could help a student in need. At the end of the week as the student council members prepared for a trip to a nearby dare care (under the supervision of their sponsor, & LIS) to host a Halloween party for Daycare Goer’s,I continued shelving and organizing the reference section. As the LIS directed student’s to get dressed in their costumes, the DECA members and sponsors came in to prepare for their event. The DECA Club hosted their induction ceremony in the library as well. I am in the 900’s now. Hopefully my project will be completed soon.

Reading shelves and reorganizing the reference section transcended over into this week of my library work. The end of the week many patrons came in for various reasons, speakers, computers, books and class visits. There was nothing extraordinary happening this week. I am learning a lot about organization as it relates to book/shelf size, also to dress down when shelving because you will get “down and dirty’. Freshmen checked in the classroom set of “Monster” by Walter Dean Myers and the Seniors eagerly checked them out (they had been waiting for them for two weeks).

My task this week in the library was to re shelve books in the Fiction, Reference and Biography sections. While working in the Reference section I learned that it was not very organized. I asked the LIS about it and she said it had been that way since she had been at the school. She figured the rationale for the disorder was due to book size, and that is why the previous LIS had it that way. All of the shelves are the same size so she left it that way. During my work in the library there was quite a bit of activity, and the LIC was utilized well. There were two classes there, a senior class working on their. Capstone projects and a class of freshmen who were brought in by their English teacher for an orientation to the LIC. I attempted to show the LIS and one of the teachers a video on animoto.com that would aide in their presentation, but our technology was not suitable to accommodate the idea.I assisted the LIS with a printer issue, between the both of us we figured it out. A student came in after school for help with a Power Point Project on the book Monster, which I assigned and teach every year. I was delighted to help him in the library setting.