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Sep. 19th, 2012 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckYesterday was my afternoon in the school library. I like the new librarian. I'm glad of that because the whole thing could get fairly unpleasant if I didn't like her. I'd still volunteer because I think it's important, but I might have to resort to Ativan or something.
Getting used to the new procedures will take some time. I had four years to get used to the old librarian's way of doing things, and I have to learn the new procedures on the fly. I think the new procedures won't allow me as much time for shelving as the old, but I'll have to see how things work out.
I do book check out with the kids. Each child has a scanner barcode that calls them up on the computer. Each book also has a barcode. The old procedures used a binder with a sheet or two of paper per class with all the students' names and barcodes in one place. The new procedure involves giving each child a bookmark with their name and barcode on it. They hand it to me to scan when they want to check out books.
The complicated part is that the librarian wants me, before check out time every week, to sort the markers. If the child has returned his or her books, the child gets his or her marker. If not, not. I'm not sure how the timing will work out for doing that. It'll depend on whether or not the class turns in books early in the day so that they're all checked in by the time I arrive. It'll depend, too, on what the librarian has the kids do immediately on arriving. I have a suspicion that she likes to do book check out first thing with activity time (computers, her reading a story, research projects, etc.) last.
None of this is insurmountable. It just requires that I learn the new procedures and develop a routine.
After the kids left, I shelved quite a bit. Then the librarian asked me to place some holds. She has kids who want particular books put their name and the title of the book on a sheet of paper. I worked from that and placed quite a few holds. There were some I couldn't do because I couldn't find an entry for the specific book the child wanted, sometimes because the library doesn't own it and sometimes because the title was too generic ('Dragons,' for example, brought up a couple of dozen books). There was one hold I couldn't do because the child hadn't included his family name. There are dozens of kids across the school district who share his name. I had no idea which one was him.
Getting used to the new procedures will take some time. I had four years to get used to the old librarian's way of doing things, and I have to learn the new procedures on the fly. I think the new procedures won't allow me as much time for shelving as the old, but I'll have to see how things work out.
I do book check out with the kids. Each child has a scanner barcode that calls them up on the computer. Each book also has a barcode. The old procedures used a binder with a sheet or two of paper per class with all the students' names and barcodes in one place. The new procedure involves giving each child a bookmark with their name and barcode on it. They hand it to me to scan when they want to check out books.
The complicated part is that the librarian wants me, before check out time every week, to sort the markers. If the child has returned his or her books, the child gets his or her marker. If not, not. I'm not sure how the timing will work out for doing that. It'll depend on whether or not the class turns in books early in the day so that they're all checked in by the time I arrive. It'll depend, too, on what the librarian has the kids do immediately on arriving. I have a suspicion that she likes to do book check out first thing with activity time (computers, her reading a story, research projects, etc.) last.
None of this is insurmountable. It just requires that I learn the new procedures and develop a routine.
After the kids left, I shelved quite a bit. Then the librarian asked me to place some holds. She has kids who want particular books put their name and the title of the book on a sheet of paper. I worked from that and placed quite a few holds. There were some I couldn't do because I couldn't find an entry for the specific book the child wanted, sometimes because the library doesn't own it and sometimes because the title was too generic ('Dragons,' for example, brought up a couple of dozen books). There was one hold I couldn't do because the child hadn't included his family name. There are dozens of kids across the school district who share his name. I had no idea which one was him.
