October 2, 2009

A Quiet Day

Today was very quiet in the Media Center. Because it was Homecoming Day, our principal put the school in lock down mode. This meant that unless there was an overriding need, students were not issued passes to leave their classes. That kept the individual visits to a minimum. I did, however, have four classes scheduled for the Media Center. These were 9th grade classes scheduled for orientation and short story book check out. I used the quiet time to work on cataloging and placed my magazine subscription order for the year. In addition I submitted the collection for analysis through the Follett Titlewise service. I only submitted the reference section and modified the parameters so that it would give me a comparison to the Wilson collection percentages. I realize that Titlewise is designed to analyze the full collection for percentages, but I thought that it would be interesting to analyze the reference section in the same way. I began the process of building a consideration list for the reference section.

I checked the sign-in log and found that we still had over 100 visitors to the Media Center. I think this is rather impressive for a lock-down day.

Total Hours: 8 hours