Internship Day 17

It’s been a pretty neat day. I did some spine-reinforcement, re-taped the shelving labels for the W-Z shelf area, and then updated the library catalog and spreadsheet again. The library catalog is run on Destiny Quest, which had an update a few months ago, so I am updating my knowledge of the user-interface and where all the links are still.

On the downside, I realized I need to carefully check the books I’m labeling against the larger database. I had to undo some level labels because I learned that the title the book catalog referred to happened to be a different book.

I have found that with ambiguity in titles, I need references handy so I can double-check what I’m doing. At least I did that extra work and looked up said book.

Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating Women in Technology: Dreamwidth Women

To be honest, I deeply admire the women who help build-up Dreamwidth! It’s a long list, but I find each of them fill their roles amazingly well and well, I think the Dreamwidth community loves them for it… and well Dreamwidth Rocks for an up-and-coming social networking site.

I find I prefer Dreamwidth overall for its community — there’s a wonderful team of people working there [men and women alike] and it’s very much a user-centered environment. But a good portion of the staff is female, and I love admiring them for all that they do!

Most especially I admire these ladies: Denise, Afuna, Aveleh, Kat, Dom, and ChemicalLace.

Note: not all staff has their full names on this list. Most people on this list have been addressed by alias and journal name.

Denise Paolucci (denise): the co-founder and very wonderful advocate of this community! She’s also the business manager/marketer.

Afuna(afuna) and Aveleh(aveleh): Styles support! also Afuna does invite system too. Both of these are very important for a social networking site. Because a site’s only as good as the its users and its pretty AND accessible design.

ChemicalLace (chemicallace), Dom(domtheknight), and Kat (zarhooie): The Support Triumvirate! Well, can’t have a good webteam without the support techs. And I love these guys to pieces they’re fun and geeky and all kinds of helpful in both contributions and instruction.

There’s a ton more people that I love over at Dreamwidth, but these leading ladies get a lot of props from me. I might feature the rest of the team later on in a post over here.

If you wanna learn more about Dreamwidth:
Dreamwidth Studios
Dreamwidth Notes – The Dreamwidth Studios Wiki

If you’d like a code go hop over to: Dreamwidth Code Sharing

And since Dreamwidth’s anniversary is up and coming look out for The Three Weeks for Dreamwidth Project

Internship Day 16

Another late post.

I finished all the book-moving [or well most of it]. I also finished what I could figure out of the books from the catalog that needed to be re-leveled. Latest item learned this time around: If titles are ambiguous in a catalog, do not label the books titled as such — it is 98% likely that said the book the library has is an older edition compared to the one referenced.

Internship Day 15

Finished arranging the leveled shelves W-Z today. Then was put to the task of finding books from a mini catalog that are supposed to be leveled but currently unleveled. Unfortunately there are two design difficulties with said mini catalog: it does not have an index and the books are listed simply by title under grade level and then by Fountas and Pinell level — there is no information on the author or the publisher… both of which make it extremely difficult to locate!

Internship Day 14

I finally finished arranging the leveled books balcony shelf today, though I had to do some mid-process organization troubleshooting (I started moving up the next alphabet level, but realized I had run out of the flex-room space for more books in the lower-end of the moved levels because of it, so I had to undo some of the work done to regain that space). That shelf now has Levels U – V books. Now I’m rearranging the upper levels of books on the now emptier shelves downstairs from Levels W – Z. So that’s what I will be continuing to do on Thursday.

I liked listening to my supervisor teach while I was working on those shelves. The open classroom for the grade-level she was teaching is right next to my work area, in the middle of the Biographies section of the library. She was teaching the children about the Caldecott Medal and allowing them to view and judge the 2010 Medal Winner and the two books that were awarded Honors.

Listening to her makes me even more determined to be a School Library Teacher someday!

Internship Day 10 – 13

err… whoops haven’t updated in a while. Mostly, been working on a managerial task — re-arranging the multiples collection. I consolidated the unleveled books to 4 rows of bookshelves with a bookcase worth of “flex-room” because the Massachusetts Children’s Book Awards nominees have to go on the shelves, as well as some storage books from last year’s Pierce Reads.

I also moved up a good portion of the Leveled U-V on the opposite side of the shelf [still have about a bookcase and a half to fill on the balcony]. After I rearrange these, I need to rearrange whatever upper-leveled multiples are left in the lower area.

Then, I will tackle the A-T leveled books… which may well be a bit harder as they are much denser and have a lot more multiple-copies [Beverly Cleary books for instance]. Following that, I will probably work on labeling and spine-reinforcement, as well as book-counts so the spreadsheet is accurate.

I will not be in charge of the final print-out of this and I’m okay with that; the prior owner of the document wants to print it because it’s technically her original work that I’m modifying.