Tuesday, July 12 & Wednesday, July 13

Tuesday
I did a couple of new projects on Tuesday.  For one, after I finished my YA Feed read-alike display, I rearranged the furniture in the YA room.  All four club chairs were in a line against the wall, so I rearranged them into a conversation group and also repositioned the 2 display shelving units.  Then I updated and reorganized the 2 bulletin boards; one for library news and one for "other" news.  Gosh, it just hit me; they could use signs: "Library News" and "Community News" or something similar.

The second project had to do with donations.  WLPL gets a couple of hundred donated books, videos/DVDs, CDs, etc. every week.  Before they give them to the Friends of the Library group to sort for the used book store or for the book sales, Ruth goes through everything and pulls popular authors/titles, etc.  These are put on a cart and and taken to the floor to be compared to titles currently on the shelves.  If the donated copy is in better condition, the floor copy is pulled.  That's what I got to do with a cart of fiction donations.   Before I did it though I looked up all the books to see where they were located: mystery, romance, sci fi, or general fiction.  I pretty much could tell by looking at the cover or reading the flap but some of them surprised me.  By looking them up, I could also find out if something was checked out/not on the floor.  When I was finished I asked Ruth to listen to my justifications to make sure I was on track. She was pleased with my reasoning.  On Wednesday Beth will cataloged the "new" and get them ready to be processed and delete the old copies and mark them for discard/donation.

Wednesday - I am halfway through my internship:-)
The cassettes were weeded based on condition and use (if hadn't been used in the last 18 months)while I was on vacation.  In the morning I worked on deleting weeded titles from the catalog and marked them for discard/donation to the Friends.
In the afternoon I continued working on updating the location of YA titles.  Most of the nonfiction was entered as a fiction location and most of the 741.5s got changed to a new Graphic Novel (GN) location.  I also updated any call numbers that needed to be changed from 741.5 to GN and corrected call numbers with typos, for example !33.4 to 133.4.

Thursday - off