Summer is here!

Summer is here- okay not officially but in reality I think most of our cold days are over. ( Except for maybe tomorrow) I hope you enjoyed your day. Are you ready to work tomorrow? No, I am not either but I must buckle down and get reading my shelves along with all the other thing Ineed to do before the end of the year.
One thing I do is to mark each shelf with a paper so that I will remember to write down what I have done. This also gives me motivation to keep going!

It's May!

Yes I know that I have been slacking on this blog- caught the stomach flu and was out of commission. What fun ! (Not Really) So it's May, are you reading your shelves? You should be! Do it now and do it correctly . When you get to inventory then you will have a much better time!

Busy Week

I 've had a busy week last week . This one proves to be also about the same! My workshop was great- but now back to Chase! I think the fire drill walk is today! More later!

How do your patrons check out their books? If you are public then obviously the patrons bring in their cards. If you are in a school ,you might have a variety of options. High School might have cards- or you might just type in their last name. Or you might have them listed by class and on a Rolodex where you can just flip to the class and zap their last name. Some elementary's use the notebook method where by each class is listed with students bar code and you can just wand over that. My system is a card system. As each class come to the library, I take out their class library cards. When it is check out time, the cards come out and the student gets there card before approaching the circulation desk.

Too cold out today! Get ready for a new week. I hope you are satisfied with the circulation desk area. Have you been clearing and organizing? If you have all of your items ready then you will be ready for anything.
When I go in to work this morning, I have everything ready for my mornings work. I do this at the end of each day- I stamp cards, and check my plan book. Then I pile up the materials I need for each class. I have my objectives written on my flip chart. This afternoon I will write out the three more objectives that I need for tomorrow. Then they are done for the week.

Let's get right back into the swing of things at your library. How is your circulation desk? Is everything organized?? Straightened ? Clean? do you know where everything is? If you don't and you have to search for things then that takes time away from productive work.
So look hard today and see if there is something to straighten out / move. Make your desk work for you as if it were a human assistant( even if you have one) Make sure that you are ready every morning with the supplies you need at your circulation desk. Maybe at the end of the day you can stamp date dues( if you use them) , put everything in order. ( a good task to do at the end of the day- especially if you are a morning person. then you should do the more challenging tasks in the morning! Ah- another topic to think about! See you Friday!

Its Wednesday and I have spent my time off doing lots of different things. But I have been going through papers, recipes, and clothes that I just don't need. I have started a bag for the consignment shop of clothes that I am sure I will not wear any more. I even added a few other items from the house that will go in my bag. Here is my motto- if you are not using it- let someone else use it.
Still to cold to get outside so I will organize, read, and bake.