Frank Long Elementary

8:30-10:30AM
Today all books were due back to the media center for the Thanksgiving break. So it was packed in there! When I walked past, there were piles and stacks everywhere! So I stopped in to see if they could use any help! They of course said they could! The media clerk, two other paras, and I worked diligently for close to two hours before we finally got all the books where they belonged. There were books stacked on the checkout desk, carts, and pretty much everywhere you could find a space! One of the paras was constantly checking books in and putting them into a different stack to be organized and reshelved. The other para and I were picking through the stacks to get any books that belonged in the row for series. The media clerk was in the easy section with an overburdened cart putting them away and straightening shelves as quickly as she could. It seemed that every time we got through a stack another one appeared! After a while, the stacks finally started to shrink and by about 10:30, most of the books were where they belonged. I guess this is what it is like every time all books are due! I knew they were swamped during this time, but I never realized they were this swamped! Thank goodness for outside help!

Frank Long Elementary

9:30-10:30AM
This week is Children's Book Week, so the media center is the place to be! Today was our reading lock-in where students were allowed to wear their pajamas and were encouraged to read all day. Because of this, the media center was incredibly busy. I stopped by to get a couple books so I could read to a Kindergarten class and I could hardly see the media clerk behind all her piles. So I stayed to help reshelve books and get them caught up. I had never reshelved in the media center so I was a little unsure of their organization system, but caught on rather quickly. I took several of the series books and put them where they belonged. The students were incredibly helpful in the fact that if I couldn't find a series, they would tell me exactly where it was! After about an hour, they seemed to be caught up pretty well and had called in enough reinforcements that I felt like I could leave and not affect them too bad.

Frank Long Elementary

2:45-4:30PM
Today I had shortened hours in the media center since there was no after school program. I just kept the doors open for anyone searching for a book or needing to use the workroom. I had close to the same amount of people using the tools in the back room. I also had a couple questions about books and other resources. Since there were not a lot of people still at the school, I decided to close it early and go home.