I often times feel that I'm being pulled in many directions, and I know that being 60% adds to that feeling. In all honesty, it's been a busy few month in my new position as District Library Media Specialist in the Deerfield Community School District. Since this past fall, we have tackled several big projects. We converted both libraries from Alexandria to Destiny, we implemented weekly library centers at DES, and the reorganization project in our non-fiction/informational area of the DES library is 98% complete (for more info see Changing Things Up and Changing Things Up - Part II). Lots of hard work and determination from the most amazing library assistant around (Maggie) is how the reorganization project made it from start to finish. Maggie took charge of the project, asked questions when she had them, and saw it through to the end!
The reorganization has proven to be successful in a variety of ways. In my opinion, two of the greatest being...
1.The kids love it, and as they become more familiar with the new book store model concept, they are digging into topics and books that they didn't even know existed. There's always excitement in their voices as they share the newly discovered book treasures.
2. It has made us aware of areas in our collection that need to be developed. For example, a group of students were browsing the shelves in the War area and asked why there wasn't a shelf-marker and books for the Vietnam War. Ding, ding.....let's take a look at what Follett has to offer.
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