HomeMy WebLinkAboutNovember 30, 1995TO:
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M. Rebecca Loader, Library Director
Marsha Tubbs, Children's Librarian
November 30, 1995
November Operational Report
November has been something of a catch-up month. The Children's Department has been making progress towards
completion of a number of lingering projects. Progress is slow however.
COLLECTION/MENDING: We began mendin9 the easies the first part of August. The Pages have completed the mending
project A - H. This is a task that is not appealing to them. I have chosen to suspend the project temporarily and proceed
with step two. During the month of November we have noted the transaction information on all shelf list cards for the same
section (A - H). The Pages will resume mending of easies next week.
LABELS: We have also placed new spine labels on all Caldecott and Newbery Award titles, and have begun labeling
horror titles as well. I determined that a horror title must have one component to receive this label: there must be a ghost
or supernatural entity involved. This should help to separate this highly popular genre from the regular mystery collection.
YA PAPERBACK: The first titles arrived and have been processed and labeled. We now have approximately 60 titles in
a new YA paperback collection, linked to paperback records within the database. I am hopeful that linking these titles will
create a new interest in the YA collection. Paperback is the preferred format for teens. The Bookmen fill on this order
was disappointing. We may want to consider ordering these titles through Baker & Taylor in the future.
WEEDING 700's: I intend to complete the weeding of the 700's before the middle of December. This will leave the 000 -
499 section to do in 1996 along with the JFic and Easy inventory.
HOLIDAY STORYTIME: We have 26 registrations for Holiday Storytime. A number of the adults were making statements
about the weather being a factor. The daycare people do not want to transport groups during cold weather. I suspect that
our Winter Storytime will be smaller for this reason as well. I am looking forward to the Holiday Storytime (I like these
stories). We will be doing a mix of Christian, Jewish, Santa, reindeer, and Kwanzaa tales.
MEETINGS: On November 15, I attended a Data Privacy workshop along with the Director and Adult Services Specialist.
Jo Scudder, former Children's Services Specialist, took over storytime on this day and the following while I attended
workshops. It was good to have her back again. Data Privacy has gotten to be quite extensive. Privacy of records is
vitally important to libraries, I appreciated the opportunity to attend. The information was most helpful.
On November 16, I had the great pleasure of attending a workshop provided by Carolyn Feller Bauer on storytelling. I
came away with many, many new ideas for storytime and thoroughly enjoyed a day with FUN people. I can hardly wait
to put some of these techniques to use.
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK: The winners of our book week contest were:
Jaclyn Sawyer won a tin of grammy bears; Mat Woodrig won a Crayola collector tin full of crayons, and Brittanie Honeck
won the Eye-D Picture Challenge. The contest ran the week of November 12 - 18.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
Easy mending
Easy transactions
Caldecott and Newbery booklists
1996 program calendar
Keeping in Touch (newsletter for educators)
Sneakin' a Peek (YA newsletter)
700's weeding
J Fiction weeding
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