A week later...

It's been a week since I started at my new school and I'm nowhere near finished.  I've been cataloging and processing books galore, along with new equipment like printers and Apple TVs.  Mostly I've been cleaning and throwing things away as I search for purchase orders to figure out where these books came from and what she paid for them.

Tomorrow is Open House and I am dreading it.  Not that the parents and kids will be there -- just because my library is absolutely nowhere near being ready.  I have what seems like 100 ancient overhead projectors to get rid of.  These are lining my bookcases all the way around the library (as you can see in my pics from last week).  When you first walk in, there are tables piled full of junk to discard on the right, and then this mess is surrounded by boxes upon boxes of more discards.  The problem is I can't just throw this stuff away. I have to fill out a request form and then wait for people from central office to come get this stuff.  There's no telling how long that may take.  

I'd also like to rearrange the library.  I don't care for the way it is currently set up.  I'm really not sure of a better way, though, so I guess I won't be in too big a hurry for that...  My biggest issue really is just that there are two nonfiction sections,  Why???  I mean, I get that you want to keep the big kids who are in browsing the shelves all day long away from the little kids who are in for a story and checkout or whatever, but ugh!!!!

I need to just focus on cleaning and getting things situated...   I guess I'll worry about the rest later.  

Tomorrow I don't need to be in till 12, but I think I'll go in early and work all day.  I need to catalog some books so I can use Destiny to print spine labels for me.  And I need to make a bulletin board.  A loooong day lies ahead of me tomorrow, I suppose...  I think I'll try to get in there by 9 and then we work till 7:30.  I can't stand that it will look like a disaster area when they come out tomorrow.

On the plus side, I now have a handy dandy iPad to use.  I'd rather have a SmartBoard, but beggars can't be choosers, right?  

The bulletin board I'm working on will be something along the lines of this:

Then, hopefully if I take next week to finish up, I can get started with library lessons the 2nd week of school.  That is what I'm hoping for at least!!