I love my job. I love helping people find what they need, connecting people to information and books. I love being in the community of a middle school, these are my people-the kids and the staff. I love the hustle and bustle and the quiet time.
Here are some of the things I do all day.
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| The circulation desk is where all the magic happens, I can find books in the catalog that kids are looking for (John Green, John Green, If I Stay) and recommend others they might like. I've been working on making the library as welcoming and friendly as I can because it's important to me that kids feel like the library is a place they belong. It's my job to connect my patrons with information and resources they can use. |
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| I don't like this green shelf. I've wanted to get rid of the first moment I laid eyes on it. I finally cleared and consolidated enough to clean it off completely. It's my job to keep the library neat and orderly. Usually this just means putting books back in the right place, dusting and general housekeeping but coming to a new school means making the space new. This has been a favorite part of my job. I'm loving how this is turning out. |
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| This is the "Newbery Maybe" shelf. It's my job to keep up with all the new books. Luckily, I LOVE to read. I get recommendations from all over blogland and I request lots of books from the public library and other school libraries to keep up with the books that aren't in our collection yet. So far my favorite is Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff and (along with everyone else) Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacquline Woodson. |
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| Of course it's my job to check books in and out. Here's a stack of books coming back from a social studies class after an Ancient Egypt project. It's important that the books get used, otherwise what good are they sitting on the shelf? |
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| I love a good before and after story. This is our little back room. It's hot in the summer and freezing the winter, too far away from the stacks and computers to really work as an office and until recently it was full of junk. My darling student aides and I have spent months cleaning it out and organizing the dead computer parts. After salvage came and took the old furniture we had a nice, clean room! We can use it for meetings or dance practice. |
There are, of course, many other things that happen in my day. This was today and I loved it.
