Scheduling Challenges/Importance of Communication!!

March 31st-April 2nd (School Library)

So my week in the school library did not get off to a smooth start.  When I came in at 9:30am on Monday, March 31st I was surprised by a classroom of students who were waiting to check out their textbook novels assigned by the teacher.  This particular class visit was not scheduled on the master library calendar maintained by the teacher librarian on MS Outlook, so I had no way of being prepared for the class.  If you've ever had to try and maintain order amongst 30+ teenagers who've already been waiting in line for 5 minutes for their turn at the circulation desk then you'll understand what I was dealing with.  They don't all bring their library cards either!

April 1st and 2nd - just trying to keep on top of the returned textbook novels and overdue fiction books that are now starting to grow in number as we approach the end of the school year.  Eighth graders are getting the message that their graduation and end of year field trips might be affected by library fines, overdue books, etc..  At the end of 2013, the District's textbook services set the Destiny system to automatically roll over overdue books after a certain amount of time to "lost" status.  Just this week I was asked by a student if the we had "The Mazerunner" in our collection - the catalog indicated yes so I checked the shelf and the book wasn't there - when I rechecked the catalog it indicated the one copy had been "Lost".  I searched for the last patron who had checked out the book and the Librarian was able to send a notice to that student to return the book immediately.  The book showed in the return dropbox at the end of the day :).