Days 5, 6 & 7

Friday
Spent the day in Children's.  Trained a couple of 8th grade volunteers how to register children in the summer reading club and how the prize levels work.  Figures it was the busiest morning so far!  Learning about summer reading clubs was one of my goals, so all this has been a good thing.  I like that WLPL allows the children to chose a number of books or a number of hours read as their goal. Seventh graders can chose to participate in the Children's or the Adult - there is no YA Summer Reading Club.  Am told there just isn't enough interest.  The prizes aren't as nearly as good for the adults - but they only have to read ONE book to get into the drawing!!  Children's has prizes at:
5 books or 2 1/2 hours
10 books or 5 hrs.
15 books or 7 1/2 hrs
Final goal - minimum 20 books or 10 hours -by July 31
Once you reach your final goal you also get in drawings for prizes:
1st place: choice of bike (2), Nook Color
2nd place: complete set of HB Harry Potter books
3rd place: telescope, + 3 other things - can't remember what
4th place: 100 different items!!

Shelved for the first time in Children's - a very complicated process.  These book are all shelved in different places:
JE FIC white label - shelves
JE FIC purple label - shelves
JEPB (paper backs-blue label) - bins- alpha by author first letter only
Board books - bins - random
J BAS - shelves by windows
Favorite authors/character  such as Curious George or Dr. Seuss- by bin
NEW books - blue dot - outward facing display
J FIC
J FIC Dickey Collection - Award winners
J YH nominees & winners
J Dear America & Am. Girl
Series - top shelf of shelf section
J NF


Sunday
Worked upstairs- by myself! - at the reference desk.  Pulled  ILL books, printed their tickets, and shelved for delivery or pick up. Looked up a double-sided cart of donated books to see whether the library already owned them or not.  Typed up a couple of small projects that I came up with - list of YA book recommendations - WLPL no longer has a YA librarian due to budget cuts (was only a 10hr/wk position) and a dystopian list to go along with the Lafayette-West Lafayette One Great Read - which is M.T. Anderson's Feed. And helped patrons, of course!

Monday
Changed some YA graphic novel spine labels from 741.5 to GN.  I think the books were checked out when they did the rest of them. I noticed they're still 741.5 in the children's room though. (I changed ours at school to GN a couple of years ago after attending a session by Robin Young at the ILF conference.)  Because there were only a half dozen, had to use a typewriter to make the labels - yikes!   Haven't used a typewriter in 15-20 yrs.

Also deleted weeded copies and their records (if West Side had the only copy)from the Evergreen catalog.  I'm hoping the process is similar on my system at school.  I weeded the nonfiction this year- 000-899s, but I haven't taken them out of the system yet 'cause I didn't know how.  Nothing like learning as you go! (Or putting off because you don't know how - didn't really have the time either though.)  Then had to mark the books - a W over the bar code and mark out the WLPL stamp on front endleaf, title page, and page 19 in black marker.  Surprised that there isn't a "discarded" stamp; anyone could use a black marker.....

The last couple of hours, I got to work on my other pet project - YA resource links for books, writing, music, homework, etc.