We spent the last week with the primary school teachers here at school.  We has our meetings in the Library and the returning teachers were all impressed with the progress I made  I really am not sure I have made much progress but the sentiment was appreciated.  I shifted the books once so I could move the bookshelves so I could move my desk last month and now I have shifted them again so that I could use the bookcases I moved and add the non-fiction that was in boxes.  I have worked my way from the 2 boxes of 300′s and am not on the 400′s and 500′s.  It took lots of counting and figuring out the know who many empty shelves I needed to leave when I shifted for each section.

The kids start next week so I am gearing up for that. I made rules based on what the staffs aid the problems were last year and posted them.  I think the main problem was the kids were expected to use the Library as study  hall but it sounds like they were unsupervised.  I hope my presence can help them be focused and make the Library a useful space.

I have successfully moved the circulation desk.  The previous Librarian had the circulation desk in a spot that was not close to the door or the book drop, so I moved it today.  It just makes more sense to have it by the door so I am right there and can greet people, etc.  I ma happy with the change and think it will work well.

In other news, I successfully inventoried all the books on the shelf.  I know that Follett Destiny keeps track of your collection, but while checking in a stack of books I found a number of them that were not in the system.  Plus, one whole section of the Children’s picture books were not in the system.  So I spent the last week and a half scanning every book in the Library.  I found a good deal that had barcodes but had not been cataloged.  So I think my first step will be to get those taken care of.  We have about  7,000 books on the shelf now.  I am excited to see how many I’ll add to the system in the next few weeks.

I me the Secondary school teachers this week.  They all seem nice and I think I’ll get along with them.  They have been in the Library and we have talked about what they expect from me and the Library.  I can’t really order new books now because there is such a backlog.  But hopefully once I get things paired down we can order more things.