Greetings!
I hope you all had a wonderful summer break. We are now back to school and hoping that soon our students catch on to the classroom procedures. One of our aides mentioned to me in the hall today that the first few weeks is really just teaching procedures! I nodded that it was true. My favorite time begins in October when things are all settled, everyone knows what they SHOULD be doing and the year is running fairly smoothly.
I do want you to know that I really appreciate when I meet you in person and can talk with you face to face. Just a couple of weeks ago I was in an in-service and the person behind me that I had paired up with looked at my name tag and asked if I was the librarian. (I saw her question in my mind like this,”Are you THE LIBRARIAN?”) I was proud to acknowledge that I was THE LIBRARIAN. She commented that she enjoys my emails each week. Some people have told me that they print them out and keep them in a binder. I’m glad that you are doing what works for you, but I also hope that you know that there is a place that they are all kept. I post them on my blog. I actually set up the blog expressly for that purpose; to have a place to keep all the posts. I would love you to check it out. Go to sdalibrarian.blogspot.com and you will find every post that I have sent since January of 2009. I have some duplicates there. Either the subject came up again or it had been a long time since I had talked about it, so I did another post.
I would like for you to please send me any questions that you may have concerning the library or books. If you have a question about where to catalog something, I am happy to help. One thing that may save you some time is to access our Rogers Adventist School online catalog. Go to library.rschool.org and you will be able to access my library and the catalog. Click on ‘Researcher’. Type in the name of a book or a subject and press ‘Enter’ or ‘Search’. You will see the title of the books in blue with the author’s name below. The middle column has the Dewey number followed by a cutter number. (Most of your school will probably have three letters for the author, but our library started a different way so we continue that.)
If you were looking for the number for ‘Frogs’, you will see that I have ‘rainforest frogs’ in 574.54 and other frogs in 597.8. The 574 is rainforest, and the 597 is where amphibians are. That may be enough to answer any cataloging question for you. If it isn’t, please contact me and I will help.
I hope you have a great week and relaxing and fun Labor Day.
Audrey
“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” (Chinese Proverb)
