Wednesday, May 15, 2013

What I've done so far...

With all the end of the year craziness, I've found little time to do much else. I feel like I'm getting sick, or am having severe allergies, or something. Yuck. That's the bad part of living in Texas in the spring.

We're in the process of moving our collection from our little world into the main library--a serious task! This is a list of all the stuff I have done this past week:

  • Finished inventory! (I completed all the following: nonfiction, half of junior fiction, one shelf of red dot nonfiction, junior readers, junior biographies, new books, graphic novels, Bluebonnet nominees, half of everybody picture books, folk tales, as well as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Hannukah, Easter, and Halloween, professional development, audio books, and reference)
  • Read shelves: I only was able to read junior fiction, part of nonfiction, graphic novels, and a minute portion of everybody books. 
  • Merge collection: I was able to change the category of our LSC PL (lower school professional learning) collection and move those out with all the others, then moved the 000s to 499s red dot nonfiction to the other nonfiction. PHEW. That means...
  • MORE WEEDING. I weeded and weeded, on top of what Carrie and I weeded and weeded. Phew. So many books, such gross covers! Yuck! Who let this book with ketchup in it slide for a million years?!
Today I went back and looked over what was still missing from inventory to find it. A lot of the ones I weeded are not coming up, which is okay. We'll figure that out. They're marked "lost" for now.

It's only Wednesday. I need to pace myself before I have a coronary.