Sarah+Graff

Learning Journals will be due every other B Day

March 20th Weeding Books actual manuals written on how to take books off the shelves how far to go back and so on and so forth still relevant cirriculum reading level MUSTY grant making. One shot deal ebook feature display stools rotating thingy murals libguides go to college website see if they use libguides to curate digital content. May 12th Yearbook DISTRIBUTION WOOHOO. So all year I've been tracking names, grades and what kind of yearbook that people have purchased throughout the year on an excel spreadsheet. I've worked out 3 lists for each of the 3 packages, and then I created a mass senior list to run off for the the Senior distribution day. We received the books, just in time, and we spent Wednesday unpacking all of the personalized books and sorting out senior vs. underclassmen and then getting the maroon books up and ready for the workers to hand out everything quickly and efficiently. I actually missed delegating things to do, because I took control of the poor people who volunteered to help me and I ran with it. It was a blast too :-) I felt the power! But we were able to get everything out for the most part, we didnt have too many mishaps, but I was the go to question person. Underclassmen day was a little more rough, but still ran smoothly and we sold a lot of the extra books. I've honestly never seen so many $100 bills. But it is done and over with, and I'm getting a ton of people to sign my yearbook which is always fantastic.

May 6th 1 MONTH UNTIL GRADUATION!!! Woohoo!! So the library has finished check out and we are in inventory mode! We've all adopted shelves in the library, and gosh there are a lot of books. It is fun though! I've had to move books up and down on the shelves and adjust the number of books on a shelf so it wouldn't look bad. The reorganizing sections and finding books that classes were using, and just finding the books that were out of order. I don't know why, but I enjoy that kind of stuff. I got through like 10 pages in two days (A day followed by a B day). Some shelves are in better order than others but some I find the book two shelves down and have to adjust all of the other books accordingly. I haven't done any the past two days or so because Mrs. Moran needed my help with yearbook stuff. So I went from organizing books to organizing green yearbook forms. I am a horrible person though... I forgot y's in two people's names :-( Luckily we caught it now instead of when the people got the book. I really need to double check some of those names!!

April 24th Welcome to the Miller Library... Ok the name isnt all that cool, but it is a pretty library. There is an articles, books, and journals section in the libguides. To me it is a very organized kind of pathfinder page. It is cool that they have a whole facebook pages and even a texting app of some kind that you can text the librarians with a question and they'll respond with an answer. I think that's just neat because they are focusing on their type of patron. But they have a small section closer to the bottom that has all of their "How Tos" like where and how to print a document and stuff like that. They also have the users for the library as a FAQ. If youre a college student or faculty you essentially have any checked out items for the entire semester unless the item is recalled earlier. They also have a close connection with alumni who are also allowed to use the library but must return the books after 3 weeks. They also have a Friends of the Library section where members pay $10-$300 for a membership depending upon the type of research they are going to be doing as well as how long they'll need the membership. There they also have a $1.00 per day fee for every day a book is overdue. So that will definitely be something I watch out for.

April 22nd Ok, so this week has been hectic! The yearbook was due last Thursday, but luckily Mrs. Moran was able to get it extended until Monday (yesterday). The last thing to be done was the lovely senior bios, oh joy... So hopefully that is all done. I spent all Friday finishing pages, and proof-reading the Senior bios for anything inappropriate. All I can say is that my class is just not very nice as a whole! Some of this stuff is going into the yearbook, and if I was the person in question, I would not want to remember some of the stuff they're putting down. Seriously one guy put that flicking bottle caps at people's heads was his favorite high school memory... And another girl passed down her "plastered face" to a rising junior, and by far my favorite (not really) this guy passed down "his hatred of everyone to no one because I hate you." I was appalled. So I just hope that was only a select few, and not everyone... Plus I'm a little angry because I sent in a picture with my bio to be included and it wasn't included. My page just had 4 selfies... It was awkward! But I didn't volunteer to head up that page so I probably shouldn't be talking... Oh well, I'll just tape my picture in on top of the weird selfies and the mean bios! But anyways it looks like it's done. Now we just get to wait for the whole distribution process to begin! I'll have that organized and running because I already have ideas :-D So we'll have to get ready for that... And make signs! On the bright side fiction weeding is completed! Woohoo!

April 4th Grant Making Rocks! I have a shirt that says that so it's going to be the topic of this week's journal entry! So like 2 years ago the district received a million dollar donation which is pretty fantastic. So Dr. Fischer was planning on breaking it up among the libraries and the music department and probably a few other places. I know those two main ones. Mr. Woods on the other hand wants to kind of show case this grant as a way to almost get more money from anonymous donors. By showing what Oxford can do, it would hopefully inspire more donations to come our way. In GAB we work together to create our funding guidelines Which are sent out to non-profit's and we get something called a Request for Proposal or RFP back. I actually went to Washington College this weekend (Friday and Saturday) and their library is pretty nice. It actually has a coffee shop inside on the talking floor and then the other two floors are known as silent floors. The silent floors have personal cubbies to sit in and study but the main floor was a lot like our library. So that was kind of comforting.

March 20th Alright so we are weeding in the library! Not gardening weeding, but rather taking out books to clear up the shelves. So there are whole books dedicated to weeding, and how and when to take certain books out. Usually when they're older, not as circulated, yellowed pages, dirty, falling apart covers, too many copies or just not relevant to some topics. As a book fan it is hard to remove books because it is removing books from the library! Someone must read that book some point, right? But we're basically making room for newer, more popular materials to come in and be seen. It is all marketing and going to the matresses with these books during this weeding process. I have two guides on my iPad at the moment. One for ebooks and the other for fiction. It is kind of exciting that there are so many books to be read that have yet to come out and the fact that we have too many books is always a good thing too :-)

March 14th The past 2 weeks have been dedicated to scanning, cropping, and going "aww" at all of the Senior Sentiment Ads. My favorite one was Tanner Smith's, what his mom wrote made me tear up a little... It was just really sweet. I also can't look at the people the same way either because their baby pictures were just too cute! I am glad it is over though, because there was A LOT of pictures, and the computer liked to freeze up, probably because I bombarded it with too much stuff, and I'm glad the scanner worked well...most of the time. I also started by doing one photo at a time... Which was not smart, but luckily I got lazy and started doing 3 or 4 at a time, and everything went much, much faster. I'm glad I got to scan those because it is all very sweet. I didn't get one because there was a misunderstanding on the due date, and then a lost paper, so my mom is just making her own for me to practice her photo and computer skills. But my favorite one was the one for Tanner Smith because what his mom wrote literally made me tear up because it was so sweet. I really loved it.

February 25th Theme: Becoming a Librarian in a School So I was sitting in front of your desk one day, and Is aw a binder that said "Teacher Orientation" (I think? It was the red one) and because I am just a curious person, I asked about it. My plan for the future includes back up paths that I a nan take. Usually when I say I want to major in History I get the whole "and what do you think you're going to do with that major? Become a teacher? There's no money in that!" And all that blah blah, so I go to further explain how I want to work at the Library of Congress. If. I don't make it there, I will become a historian and work at a museum and other such stuff. If I don't enjoy either of those paths, I want to become either a high school librarian or history teacher. At this point, the person usually drops the mean stuff amd says with a shell-shocked expression, "That is a very specific plan.." And changes the topic. So I thought I'd ask about what teachers have to do to stay/become teachers. First off, every year teachers are observed and pretty much graded by administrators. They then get together and go over strengths and weaknesses to see what they need to improve, and how they can do that.

Sarah, love your plan. Unlike many young adults, you have given yourself options and prepared in case things don't turn out as expected, which they often do. What will work in your favor is your dedication, general desire to help and do a good job and learn new things. You are a remarkable young lady and I have no doubts that you will be happy and successful doing any of the careers mentioned above! Or hey, maybe even something totally different. The world is your oyster, lady!

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January 22nd Book Club, Book Club, Book Club! For January and February we are doing Miss Peregrine's Home for Unusual Children and it is a creepy book. Im sorry to say but I will not be doing this Month's book club because it is just creepy. and I got that from looking at the pictures and cover. But anyways we were looking at how to make Book Club more noticeable, and the morning announcments came up. So Mrs. L came up with the idea of animoto, which creates a 33 second slideshow video thingy. I found an iPad app, amd its pretty fun to play and mess around with, and got to work. It was definitely a work in progress as I learned what all I had to include and do and mess around with, but it worked after like 3 or 4 tries! In order to make the video more of a hook type thing I did not start with the BooK Club slide as I think it will draw more attention if nobody knows what is going on. So using the book jacket quote thingy, as well as pictures from the book I was able to compile them in a creepy manner, that really got the point across. While it took many many tries, we finally got it to work! Thank goodness for my ipad and a free app as we were able to save it as a .mov for free rather than just uploading it somewhere. Im just happy it worked.

December 20th Sooo Mrs. Moran's Printing Tech? or Graphic Design classes will be designing book jackets for books with bland covers. Now I know we've all been taught "Dont judge a book by its cover," but we do anyways. We look for covers that draw our eye, and pique our curiousity (not sure if i used that correctly, but I will edit these tomorrow too). So in order to create an accurate cover, Sarah B. and I and the other library aides worked on compiling summaries for these books, becuase if you had a cover meant for Pride and Prejudice on Uncle Tom's Cabin, it simply would not make sense for that novel. So we scoured the web for summaries, finding that goodreads.com had the best ones, for the most part. I for one, am very excited to see how these come out!

December 6th We were cataloging today! We typed in the Table of contents for many new books. When searching for books in the catalogs these key words in the Table of Contents will help streamline the search. So we had to type starting with a capital letter than lower cases because thats how it has always been done. Screenr really seems to dislike us as we try to get it to work on a student computer. Darn Java and powerschool shenanigans!

November 20th So this week Ive been really lazy, and it is not good at all. Ive been checking out library displays, still and Ive been trying to think of ways to pull them off... I think that will be my relaxing project on Sunday. As long as I am productive Sunday, I find my weeks are much more productive. So hopefully that will start my week off well. I covered a few books, and that darn Dream Encyclopedia hates me, so forgive the messy covering. I really do like being a student librarian. :-)

Sarah, I love the display ideas you came up with the other day. I also did a general search on Pinterest for "library displays" and found some awesome ideas. Don't forget to be taking photos of everything you're doing, including the displays, to put together your digital portfolio at the end of the year. You do great work. Next week, we should sit down, pull together our ideas and come up with a definite schedule for the remainder of the year.

November 8th Book Club Ideas!! I knew there was one due soon! Screenr now works! (we think) Now we just need to wait for the lab to be open... So hopefully that will be freed up soon. Little Sarah and I are also checking out display ideas for the library in the upcoming months. My favorite is the mustache one, because it just looks funny on the books with faces to have giant mustaches on their covers. There is also a spring into reading, and I can definitely help cut out leaves and flowers, granted I write it down. Yearbook sales week #2 are going ok. We've sold 3 books, but have not collected any canned food. Supplementals are also going out slowly, but surely, and we're down to one box instead of two! Those envelopes are dangerous though. They are just paper cuts waiting to happen.

__**October 28th**__

Ok! So screenr doesn't want to work, and Im on time for this journal! Yay and Boo! This week we've gotten our library aide pictures done, at least for this period. Hopefully we will be able to get the screenr up and working soon, as they are going to be my midterm project! Im looking forward to do them too, because I haven't had much experience with the new catalog, so it will be good to learn it, and be more comfortable with it. I still need to go through individual biographies and the other sections of the library to look stuff over for the AP Euro book list. I found a quizlet, and I think I might have another list on the wikispace I made for the class two years ago (gosh, it was only 2 years ago.... That's really strange). Then for yearbook all of the information is entered, we just need to distribute supplementals and deal with senior stuff. There is A LOT to do with superlatives and people don't understand that we actually want people to be remembered for good things, rather than negative things. Plus it opens up a spot for another more fitting superlative. So we shall see how that goes!

__** October 16th **__ I am really bad at doing these this year! There was a lot of yearbook stuff, and I missed like 3 days for other random happenings so the library stuff fell by the wayside :-( But anyways in the yearbook aspect of things, Mrs. Moran and I are working on getting out the supplementals for last year's book out to the graduated seniors and the rest of us. We're still trying to figure out the best way for distribution. But luckily, I have all of the orders filed away, safe and sound. It is all very organized if i do say so myself. Also I had a brilliant idea of using the iPads for when we have to hand out the books at the end of the year. Much like the blood drove and library sign-in, use google docs to keep track of the maroon, white, and hornet orders on top of the extra books sold during that week. My project for this week in the Library is to update the AP European Book list for the extra credit book reviews. I took the class sophomore year, and surprisingly I still remember some of it! So Ill be going through that and using the portable baby scanner to scan the barcodes in.

__ October 3rd __ I have found my new favorite thing to do! Covering Books :-) It was surprisingly relaxing to do. Ive also shelved a few books, which I enjoy too because I get to look at everything. I just realized I never saved the rest of this! Having finished the shelf talkers, Ive been more focused on yearbook stuff. Im still processing and entering orders into an excel spreadsheet. I have three spreadsheets for the three different book orders. As usual, there are a lot of Maroon orders, which is the basic book. Hopefully Ill have those orders completed soon, and we can start hunting down people who requested $10 back and the other oopsies orders. On top of that, we should be starting to get the supplementals out. They have all of the spring activities. I just need to go through the senior list again to make sure we got everyone. For the end of the year, I plan on having 3 lines for yearbook distribution. Line #1 will be Maroon Orders, Line #2 will be White and Hornet Orders and Line #3 will be new orders that way we can keep track of who is buying books.

__** September 24th 2013 **__ I cut out the labels, and sorted them, for the most part. I was going through and adding new labels in, and I forget where about 5 labels go... so Ill need to fix that. I have two shelves left for the little shelf-talkers. That will be done by Friday at the latest. I have started to take pictures, using the iPad, because it's cool. I enjoy being able to walk freely around the library, and I definitely know where most things are now. Yearbook Side of Things: Homecoming week was crazy for orders. There were so many people, especially on Thursday and Friday. but we are processing these orders, slowly but surely. I have three spread sheets, one for the Maroon orders, White orders, and Hornet orders. They are organized alphabetically by last name, and depending on what they ordered, each spreadsheet has different topics for which information can be entered. I have a few maroon orders left, and then Ill be done that too! Hopefully by Friday as well.

__**September 13, 2013**__ I had a librarian moment today!! While I was supposed to be checking over labels, Mireya was looking for a small-ish book with a white rose on the cover. i helped her by going through some of the books, and then using my iPad to look up some descriptors on Good Reads. after we found the book, Beastly by Alexander Flinn, I used destiny Quest to see if he had any other books she would be interested in. Mireya grabbed another book, but I am blanking on the title... On the yearbook side of things: I went through the purchase list of yearbooks and a list of seniors to prep the supplemental pages for those who graduated. Ill finish that project up ver soon hopefully. Note to Self: when handing out books have a prepurchased lines for special ones and the normal one, and a line for people buying their yearbooks then and there. P.S I hope you're feeling better Mrs. Liljestrand!

__**September 6, 2013**__ This is the first learning journal of the year! Yay! This independent study will be a mix of library science and managing the yearbook. My goals for this year are to: 1. Be able to understand how cataloging books works (I will be reading that book you gave me this weekend) 2. Find out the ins and outs of running a library 3. Let the yearbook ordering process run smoothly 4. Survive Senior Year (This is a goal for everything I do) I have already learned about how being a library is all about making it easy for the patrons, and how finding reliable sources is invaluable to the learning process. I had a random idea, but doing a quote of the day, and possibly tying it into learning the Dewey decimal system. Have quotes from fairy tales, important people, math sayings, and other things like that?