School PC Challenges/Common Core Fun

February 25th and 26th (School Library)

Both days were a busy blur of challenges related to the school's ongoing Internet connection issues.  Aside from the usual checkin/checkout of library books and textbooks, I had to deal with problems related to the HP notebooks that the teachers to teach Language Arts according to new common core standards.  Also Wednesday (Feb. 26th) was a Common Core workshop day for math teachers - this meant the library was closed to students while the teachers used the room.  I continued my usual effort of updating and replacing the call number labels on fiction book spines.  I may have to adjust my objectives - the teacher librarian does not approve of reorganizing the fiction books according to genre.  He and I have agreed to meet once a week on Mondays at the end of my shift (12:30pm) and the beginning of his to discuss new tasks and priorities for the collection.  We both see a real need to weed collection at some point - many of the library books are in poor condition.  Whether or not this task will begin this school year or during the summer is up in the air.

I learned a new feature in Follett's Destiny system that allows you to shave a few minutes off checking out  textbook/novel sets to entire classes rather than individually by student.  This may help facilitate teacher curriculum schedules in the future.