High School Day, Weeding, & Inventory

This week, Friday, I spent time at a high school media center - what a completely different "world" from the elementary (or even middle) school media centers!  The bookcases are TALLLLLLL!  Very few students came in to check out/return books - mostly for computers and research.  I even went through and "straightened" the entire fiction section (checking that books in the correct location) and only found about 6 books out of order.  I realize the students and their needs are completely different - it's just interesting to realize how different they are from one level to another.

Earlier in the week, I completed weeding my section of 600s.  In all, I weeded about 30 books - all of which had not been checked out at all in the last 3 years and we had similar or identical copies of the same book/topic. There were some that we chose to re-catalog and locate in other places (moved to picture books, science lab, etc) so that they will hopefully get more use.

I also worked on inventory of our fiction section.  The whole scanner issue gets much easier as I go.  I didn't have TOO much trouble to start, but would struggle from time to time in getting a book to actually scan.  Finally, I realized I can just hold the button in and keep moving the book and/or scanner until it gives me the "scanned" beep.  I've also become better at finding just the right angle to obtain scans quickly.  Only four more tall bookcases to go and the fiction section will be finished.  My media specialist (and site supervisor) commented that she plans to start scanning/inventorying items in classrooms this coming week since we start testing (CRCTs, benchmarks) the following week and she won't be able to go in classrooms for those five days.