When she sent me the text, she really didn’t think I’d take her up on it.
My sister Teresa is the librarian at the elementary school both of my nephews attended. School started in mid-August, but the library didn’t open for the students right away. She’s been getting it ready for them to start using it this Tuesday, and one of the last tasks she had left was to prepare nearly 100 donated books for the circulation shelves. She had entered them all into the catalog and printed the barcodes, but they needed the appropriate labels and stamps to be applied. I spent most of Saturday afternoon helping her get that done.
We were a little assembly line. She stamped each book with the school’s name and address, applied a barcode to the front cover, and added additional labels to the title page and spine if the book was an Accelerated Reader.
Then she passed the book to me. My tasks were to apply a second barcode to the inside back cover, place the call-number label (Dewey Decimal System!) on the spine, and ensure that all of the external labels were sealed properly in place.
Picture books, chapter books, storybooks, history books, science books, silly books–Teresa’s library at Hollow Hills Elementary serves students from kindergarten through sixth grade, and I think we’ve got something here for everyone!
I’m rarely bored or have nothing to do, but I didn’t have anything I had to do on Saturday afternoon, and I’m glad I spent it helping and hanging out with my sister and her books. I’m planning to spend some time today and tomorrow with my own books. What are you planning for this weekend?
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What a fabulous way to spend time with your sister!
We haven’t done a project like that together in a long time, and it was a lot of fun!
Sounds like a fun way to spend the day!
It wasn’t planned, but it was enjoyable–and useful, too!
I agree with Kathy – what a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon: good company enjoying good books.
I don’t normally get much exposure to elementary-school reading, so it was quite enlightening for me.
Good for you. I an a school librarian, too. I always tap my children for help processing books, too. http://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2015/09/sunday-monday-salon-september-6th.html
My nephews weren’t too interested in helping their mom with this project :-).
Sounds like some quality sister time!
It most definitely was :-). We see each other pretty often since we live in the same town, but this was a nice change from our weekly Starbucks mornings.
Awesome! Elementary school libraries are so important to our kids!
The elementary schools in my district only budget librarians for 12.5 hours per week, so my sister’s job is VERY part-time–but at least they found a way to keep the libraries open.