Our principal took another position around Thanksgiving. She donated much of her professional literature to the library. Dr. Mac combined that with other resources in the collection. My first task was go through and weed some of the much older resources. I found this gem of outdated resources. I asked the student aides if they had ever seen a floppy disk. They said why does it look like the save icon in Word? Haha!! I'm old enough that I can remember using these to save my work in middle school!
My next task this week was to go through the professional resources and separate what was already part of the collection from the rest. Several of the resources had library barcodes and call numbers labeled on them! Dr. Mac had no idea why our previous principal had kept these in her office. Most of these resources had been marked as lost. I used an extra laptop and scanner in the supply room to check these back in.
My final task for the week was to create shelving space for the professional library. I cleared out a section of dictionaries and put them in the supply room. Dr. Mac plans to allow teachers to check out class sets of dictionaries for instructional purposes. The dictionaries do no good sitting on a shelf and students rarely use them independently. I then shelved what was already in the catalog according to Dewey decimals.
I also created a private sitting area for teachers to peruse the professional resources. This hopefully will encourage teachers to use the library for their own purposes!
Next week, I will start processing the professional resources NOT in the collection, adding them to the catalog!
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