Internship Day 3

Today was my third day and I'm still having a lot of fun. I got there early and stayed a half-hour later today because I wanted to finish creating more spine labels so I wouldn't have to restart the project I was working on again.

I applied the spine labels I had printed off on Tuesday, I reinforced the spines of a large amount of paperbacks with the tape dispenser, and I scanned in the barcodes of 84 books that needed spine labels.

The spine reinforcement was the hardest part - it's super-difficult to get the tape to go around the book without bubbling or being too long. I got a little bit better as I finished up, but I could still use a bit more practice.

So, Tuesday's project will be applying spine labels and reinforcing the spines of paperbacks.

Second day of Internship

I'm enjoying working in a school library, even though it's only been my second day. It also amuses me when the sixth graders run by and wave a lot (I know most of them through my little sister). I love working with children, and my career goal is to one day be a youth services librarian.

What I did today:

1. Continued updating the catalog, this time updating the call numbers with Fountas and Pinell levels for the multiple-copy books.
2. Started working on book-preparation for both multiple-copy books and a few random books -- scanning in barcodes for spine labels and printing the labels out. Thursday's work will be the more menial side of book-preparation -- taping spines and adding spine labels.
3. Was briefed on lockdown procedure - where to go and what to do.
4. Filed CORI.

First day of Internship

So, today was my first day at my internship!

Things I learned/did today!

1. The Fountas and Pinell leveling system for Guided Reading Levels

Books are leveled A - Z with A being the easiest [~Kindergarten/1st Grade] and Z Being the hardest [Grade 8]

2. Looking up GRLs using a Sundance Publishing Catalog for multiple-copy books

Look through author list for author.

If author exists in the publishing catalog, check for the book title

If book title exists in publishing catalog, check the index page reference for the book

Look at the reference page and see if it has a GRL tag, for example, GRL-S

If yes, put a sticky on the book with the GRL and take all copies off the shelf and then put a check next to the book in the author's list.

If no, write no next to the book title on the author's list.

3. Updating the GRLs for said multiple-copy books into the library catalog

Search for Book

Edit title

Series/Notes Tab

Scroll down to Fountas & Pinell, set the A-Z dropdown, save.

select all the ticky boxes that pop up[the system is checking to make sure the MARC display record is properly punctuated as forms doesn't often remember to include the periods and commas at the end of certain variables], and Save title.

If it says a record already exists, overwrite the record.

Check catalog to make sure there isn't another version that doesn't have the Fountas & Pinell level recorded -- usually 2 versions - one hardback, one paperback.

If there is another version, repeat process.

Yeah this is somewhat low-tech and very "GUI" but, i think it's useful. :)

#2 & #3 are a part of my major long-term project for the semester "The Multiples Project", which is going through all the multiple-copy books, updating the catalog for them, updating the spreadsheet for them for the big white binders and then finally reshelving them to their proper reading levels.

Other things I'll be doing as needed during the semester will be book prep, shelfreading, and importing records.