For all of the highly-qualified librarians who still get the “All you do is sit around and read and browse the Internet” comments, here’s what yesterday looked like:
- Got a 4 hour, 35 minute cooking video ready for the Life Skills class. Chose to put it on VCR quickly so that the groups could see their cooking demos on finals day.
- Set up a video camera for a teacher to record group presentations
- Troubleshot when the VCR copyright protection was stopping the teacher from showing her presentations.
- Co-ordinated by phone and by e-mail with librarians and Hyperion reps as the contact person for an awesome author visit next semester.
- Set up a display in the office.
- Updated the video clock and scrolling announcements on the server.
- Managed an online usergroup roster for one class project.
- Instructed students on how to upload podcasts on Great Expectations to a virtual classroom for another class.
- Answered questions on the Walk to D’feet ALS as an impromptu contact person for students, staff, and the community.
- Selected titles for a World War II booktalk for a Social Studies class next semester.
- Hooked students up with Shadow of the Hegemon and Titan’s Curse
- Sold some book fair books.
- Got the instructional specialists set up to work with inclusion students for testing accomodations.
- Made sure the PTRO had what they needed for their giftmaking (woo, PTRO!) for the teachers.
- Ran 5 VCRS and 3 DVD players (with the help of my assistant librarian).
- Stayed on top of AR quiz installation to help any students who were waiting for “that one test”.
- Worked with a student aide on labeling books for AR.
- Re-shelved classroom literature study books.
- Managed 70+ students at lunch (I love the cold…we had an estimated 110+ students on Tuesday morning.)
- Ran a club where I taught students Flash and Photoshop.
- Solved a worksheet after not being able to find an answer key online (because the teacher lost her answer key) without having to pay a subscription. For future reference, if you are handed a jumble of letters (after having to de-code which polygons have which sides and markings) to try and make a word/phrase, I recommend an anagram permutation solver(Sped up my search mucho-fold.).
Calling it a day I stopped at the store to get a gift card for my assistant who informed me yesterday that yesterday was her birthday. And I did some re-shelving and cataloging before I took off.
Because that’s all we do all day.
This morning, starting a new cycle, I stopped to listen to a teacher who has had three violin lessons to play a Christmas song for her mom on her dad’s violin in memory of him.
I love being a librarian!
