This week at the library

Happening this week:

• Monday
• Paws to Read
• Girl Scouts
• D&D Gaming
• Tuesday
• Toddlers 'n' Books (2 sessions)
• Library on the Go: OPtions
• Book Explosion: Realistic Graphic Novels
• VIP volunteers
• Wednesday
• Wonderful Wednesday
• Consortium youth services meeting
• Thursday
• Books 'n' Babies
• Library on the Go: OPtions
• Friday
• Free Lego Build
• Worked 40 hours; 13.5 hours on desk; 1 program

Projects and Notes

• This week's projects
• Collection development and weeding (easy readers)
• Cataloging
• Updating maker kits
• Dealing with stuff. Where does all the stuff come from? I do not know.
• Collection development notes
• I put together a list of books relating to food for a summer school class last year. Some of the teens who worked with that class came back looking for the same titles to use in their child development classes.
• Reader's advisory for reluctant/struggling readers, kids whose parents want them to move away from fantasy/comics/Dogman/Wimpy Kid, younger middle grade (Hardy Boys too scary), audiobooks for family listening.
• Teacher request for sports books with very specific parameters - internet librarians to my rescue!
• Owl Diaries, Nutmeg and Tumtum, Todd Strasser
• Small child wanting "the whale book" that I read them at school (I'm the biggest thing in the ocean) I lent them my professional copy.
• School request from 4th graders for Janet Tashjian's My life as a... and Branches Monkey and Me.
• Need to go through teacher requests and fill in some classic picture books I am missing, if they are still in print.