Thank God for Snow Days!

Today was our third snow day this winter--a new record, I think, for our county. It is unusual that such winter weather would occur this early. I am not complaining! On the first snow day and again today, I was able to go into work for most of the day and really get through some of the things that have been backing up. Teaching six classes a day leaves little time to address the administrative parts of running the library, so these "extra" days have really helped me stay on top of things. Today, I made it most of the way through a cartful of books that needed to be changed from the vendor's classification. I mean Junie B. Jones in the E section? I don't think so. It felt good to work my way through that today. We've been circulating books since we arrived at the school, and now our video/DVD collection has completely arrived. Unfortunately, the media retrieval system isn't up yet, and so teachers are unable to show videos on their TVs. Some brave ones have hooked up players on their own in their rooms, but they're getting anxious for the rest of our AV equipment (including overheads and CD players) to come in. I am anxiously awaiting the arrival, too. So the kids have been really hard on the books in our new library. I have had lots of talks with them about loving our books, but they're just not used to treating the books as well as they need to. I'm not sure what else to do, but we've already had two books get mushed banana all over them, one book get lost, two books have water damage, and one that was eaten by a dog. And we've only been checking out books for two weeks!! YIKES! Lots of people have come by complimenting the library. It makes me feel good that they like the look of it and the positive feelings they have. I've worked hard to create that atmosphere, and I'm glad people appreciate it. 2 1/2 more days until Christmas break. Oh, happy day!