Internship Day 9

Finished Tuesday’s labels and made more for the unleveled books. I’m still trying to figure out how to re-organize the shelving situation. And I finally figured out how to get the circulation desk printer to print labels. It’s a bit of a hassle, but at least now I can print and don’t have to interrupt the students printing their classwork. In addition, I finally have both logins memorized!

Internship Day 8

It’s good to be back. I had a break off for February vacation, but I’m very happy to be back in the library. I really enjoy this job.

I worked on spine labels again today [and fought with the circulation desk printer and gave up on it — that machine really doesn’t like the label sheets]. Working through the unleveled book shelves.

I found some things that are mis-shelved and will have to reshelve them after they get labeled. The major problem will be whether or not they’re all going to fit on the shelves. I have approximately 80 books to label on Thursday and then I’ll have to create more labels and/or figure out where to put books. We’ll see what happens.

Internship Day 7

… today was a little more difficult as I didn’t have as much access to my supervisor since she was at a workshop and the catalog back office seemed to be having some difficulties with loading properly.

I ended up not following the original work plan for the day because of it. Instead I went through the books and marked up which ones needed to be moved to a different section because I’m not sure if they’re in the listed count or not, and the counts of the books I have at the moment so I can look in the catalog and see if they have been taken out or are actually missing, lost or misplaced.

internship day 6!

Finished adding books to the spreadsheet AND sorted them! It took awhile to figure it out because I've never used AppleWorks before. Then I added some more spine labels, which took 3 tries because I didn't have the printer settings correct. I also emptied all the book-return bins and have started adding spine labels to the Unleveled Multiples section. :) I'll continue doing that next week. I also noted that one of the graphic novel series had the author's name misspelled on the call number so I made a note to fix it in the catalog.

internship day 5

making good progress on the main Multiples project!

I finally finished labeling the section of books I was working on (unleveled multiples that should be re-leveled) and started updating the spreadsheet records for them.

Next week, I am finishing updating the spreadsheets by updating Genre and Subject for the re-leveled multiples, then I'm adding in the multiple books from the 2010 Massachusetts Children's Book Awards(MCBA) nominees.

Following that, I have to both figure out how to re-shelve the books (a lot of them are getting moved around) and also start labeling the other books in the multiple shelves as their proper areas and do a count-check for updating the spreadsheet. Following that, I will have to update the catalog with which books are missing in the ones that are off-count.

Internship Day 4

Did some more book labeling, as well as some shelving of labeled books. Still have a few more labels to go. This time I'm adding not spine labels, but the sticker labels for reading levels.

It was a good day and I made a decent amount of progress. Thursday, I will be finishing labeling with the reading levels, marking off where the books will be going in the spreadsheet binder, and checking book-counts so that they can be updated in the spreadsheet with the correct locations.