Today's High School Hours: .5 hours
Total High School Hours: 3.0 hours
Total Hours: 18.0 hours
As with many businesses and government institutions, our school district has not been able to escape the budget crunch. LMSs across the board in MPS have been getting their jobs cut left and right for next year. I spent about half my time today talking to the head of my library about this. It greatly concerns me because I do not have my certificate yet, but I am the one on staff scheduled to staff the library. Because I have or am working towards 2 certificates (teaching and LMS) I shouldn't be too worried, but you never know how things are going to shake out. So we discussed what's gone on in the past and the way things might play out this year.
Then I finally finished shelving my books that I took out for my class to use.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
High School Hours (Reagan)
Today's High School Hours: 1.0 hours
Total High School Hours: 2.5 hours
Total Hours: 17.5 hours
Today I spent the majority of the time shelving books. I had actually pulled about a hundred books off of the shelf for my classes to use. They were doing a project where I created a wiki and then gave each of them a page. On their individual pages they are exploring the customs of a culture that they belong to. I went through pulled off many, many books on culture that they could use. When my class and the other teacher's class that had used them were done using them I checked all of the books in, even though they weren't technically checked out, so that we could see on our statistics that the books were being used. So I spent a large portion of my time putting these back on the shelves.
In addition, the head of our library went to a training session in New York this weekend. It was meant to explain to here exactly what types of things we need to have in a Middle Years Program for the International Baccalaureate organization that we are a part of. We discussed the things that she found out, as well as the things that she did not find out, and the things that we are going to have to research before our library is inspected to be on par with the IB Organization next fall.
Total High School Hours: 2.5 hours
Total Hours: 17.5 hours
Today I spent the majority of the time shelving books. I had actually pulled about a hundred books off of the shelf for my classes to use. They were doing a project where I created a wiki and then gave each of them a page. On their individual pages they are exploring the customs of a culture that they belong to. I went through pulled off many, many books on culture that they could use. When my class and the other teacher's class that had used them were done using them I checked all of the books in, even though they weren't technically checked out, so that we could see on our statistics that the books were being used. So I spent a large portion of my time putting these back on the shelves.
In addition, the head of our library went to a training session in New York this weekend. It was meant to explain to here exactly what types of things we need to have in a Middle Years Program for the International Baccalaureate organization that we are a part of. We discussed the things that she found out, as well as the things that she did not find out, and the things that we are going to have to research before our library is inspected to be on par with the IB Organization next fall.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
High School Hours (Reagan High)
Today's High School Hours: .5 hours
Total High School Hours: 1.5 hours
Total Hours: 16.5 hours
Today we received a new shipment from Follett. We received a couple of DVDs that we purchased, as well as a sizable box of books. We are lucky enough to order the books preprocessed, so all of the codes are already on the books. We still do have to stamp them with the school stamp, as well as put an alarm sticker on them so they can't be stolen. I spent about 25 minutes of the 30 minutes that I was in the library completing this task. I was also shown briefly how to put the MARC records for the DVDs into our system, because with these we actually have to download them and put them into our catalog, then upload the whole collection to Follett again so that the next time we purchase books we don't purchase these same books.
Total High School Hours: 1.5 hours
Total Hours: 16.5 hours
Today we received a new shipment from Follett. We received a couple of DVDs that we purchased, as well as a sizable box of books. We are lucky enough to order the books preprocessed, so all of the codes are already on the books. We still do have to stamp them with the school stamp, as well as put an alarm sticker on them so they can't be stolen. I spent about 25 minutes of the 30 minutes that I was in the library completing this task. I was also shown briefly how to put the MARC records for the DVDs into our system, because with these we actually have to download them and put them into our catalog, then upload the whole collection to Follett again so that the next time we purchase books we don't purchase these same books.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
High School Hours (Reagan High)
Today's High School Hours: .5 hours
Total High School Hours: 1.0 hours
Total Hours: 16 hours
Today the half hour in the library was spent searching for books on culture. I am actually serving double duty here. The books the I am pulling off of the shelf for classroom use are going to be used for my own classes for a project on culture that I am doing with them. I spent the last few days/weeks (alternating day schedule) creating a list of books about different cultures. As I said, I started pulling these books off the shelf.
I also talked to the in-charge at the library and she told me that whenever she pulls books for a class but does not let students check them out (especially if it is reference materials) she always checks them back in so that they show up in her usage statistics. This helps to give her and others better information about how the library and the materials in it are used.
Total High School Hours: 1.0 hours
Total Hours: 16 hours
Today the half hour in the library was spent searching for books on culture. I am actually serving double duty here. The books the I am pulling off of the shelf for classroom use are going to be used for my own classes for a project on culture that I am doing with them. I spent the last few days/weeks (alternating day schedule) creating a list of books about different cultures. As I said, I started pulling these books off the shelf.
I also talked to the in-charge at the library and she told me that whenever she pulls books for a class but does not let students check them out (especially if it is reference materials) she always checks them back in so that they show up in her usage statistics. This helps to give her and others better information about how the library and the materials in it are used.
Elementary Hours (MJDS)
Today's (actually yesterday's) Elementary/Middle Hours: 8 hours
Total Elementary/Middle Hours: 15 hours
Total Hours: 15.5
Yesterday I spent the day (7:45-3:45) at the Milwaukee Jewish Day School, where, I might add, the two lovely young ladies that run the library are doing an absolutely fantastic job. I started out the day by going through the information and procedures book that the head LMS prepared. It has step by step instructions on how to set up everything in Destiny, as well as instructions for any time that a substitute might be needed. I can see how this book would be incredibly handy for a sub and it is no less important to have a sub binder, or something like it, in the library than it is in the classroom. The binder continues to go through record keeping procedures for both books and students and how to create labels. I found this incredibly useful because at some point my LMS at the school that I work at is going to want me to have the proper access to add books to the library that she does not current have.
I also helped out, very briefly, on materials for the folk fair that the school has coming up this week. As previously mentioned in another post, the school sets up a mock plane ride for students in grades K through 5. Today I helped by cutting out a fake terminal walkway and by coloring some windows.
Next, I moved onto the more practical job of checking-in and shelving books. I did this at various times throughout the day because as a class comes in they procede to return more books. The first class in today was the Kindergarten. I observed as the LMS read them a couple of stories. I loved this because in my secondary experience I for some reason never imagined that reading to students would be a part of the gig. I think that this would actually be a lot of fun. Afterwards, I checked out books for the kindergarteners and I didn't have to worry about not knowing what I was doing, because they showed me. I forgot to collect the "shelf elves" from them as they checked out books, but they were on their game and taught me what to do - I appreciated it. Then I went around and asked the kids what they were reading.
After that I learned how to cover books. I've always known that there must be something on those books to keep them in good shape, but I never knew exactly how it was done. It was a bit easier than I expected and I didn't mind doing it, but if I had to do an entire cart of paperbacks it might start to wear on me.
I helped out when, I think it was the 3rd and 4th grade classes came in to work on learning how to use an online encyclopedia (World Book Online). They learned how to search for the most important parts of the questions instead of the whole question. I tried to help them where I could, but they didn't listen to me too much because I was a stranger (I didn't mind - I understand why they would be suspicious).
Finally, I spent the remainder of the afternoon weeding the 300s. It was a bit challenging for me at times because I am not Jewish and only have a small amount of background with the religion, culture, and history, so I was sometimes reluctant or apprehensive about pulling certain books off of the shelves. In the end I tried, like the LMS suggested, to stick with getting rid of the really old (or old looking ones), and the books that had not been checked out in over 10 years.
Total Elementary/Middle Hours: 15 hours
Total Hours: 15.5
Yesterday I spent the day (7:45-3:45) at the Milwaukee Jewish Day School, where, I might add, the two lovely young ladies that run the library are doing an absolutely fantastic job. I started out the day by going through the information and procedures book that the head LMS prepared. It has step by step instructions on how to set up everything in Destiny, as well as instructions for any time that a substitute might be needed. I can see how this book would be incredibly handy for a sub and it is no less important to have a sub binder, or something like it, in the library than it is in the classroom. The binder continues to go through record keeping procedures for both books and students and how to create labels. I found this incredibly useful because at some point my LMS at the school that I work at is going to want me to have the proper access to add books to the library that she does not current have.
I also helped out, very briefly, on materials for the folk fair that the school has coming up this week. As previously mentioned in another post, the school sets up a mock plane ride for students in grades K through 5. Today I helped by cutting out a fake terminal walkway and by coloring some windows.
Next, I moved onto the more practical job of checking-in and shelving books. I did this at various times throughout the day because as a class comes in they procede to return more books. The first class in today was the Kindergarten. I observed as the LMS read them a couple of stories. I loved this because in my secondary experience I for some reason never imagined that reading to students would be a part of the gig. I think that this would actually be a lot of fun. Afterwards, I checked out books for the kindergarteners and I didn't have to worry about not knowing what I was doing, because they showed me. I forgot to collect the "shelf elves" from them as they checked out books, but they were on their game and taught me what to do - I appreciated it. Then I went around and asked the kids what they were reading.
After that I learned how to cover books. I've always known that there must be something on those books to keep them in good shape, but I never knew exactly how it was done. It was a bit easier than I expected and I didn't mind doing it, but if I had to do an entire cart of paperbacks it might start to wear on me.
I helped out when, I think it was the 3rd and 4th grade classes came in to work on learning how to use an online encyclopedia (World Book Online). They learned how to search for the most important parts of the questions instead of the whole question. I tried to help them where I could, but they didn't listen to me too much because I was a stranger (I didn't mind - I understand why they would be suspicious).
Finally, I spent the remainder of the afternoon weeding the 300s. It was a bit challenging for me at times because I am not Jewish and only have a small amount of background with the religion, culture, and history, so I was sometimes reluctant or apprehensive about pulling certain books off of the shelves. In the end I tried, like the LMS suggested, to stick with getting rid of the really old (or old looking ones), and the books that had not been checked out in over 10 years.
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