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Dear Megan, You know, I've always wondered, just what DO librarians do all day?? Using this as the theme, I sent this out to all my teachers (and administrators) the second year I was on the job. Just what do school librarians do all day? DonUt they have an easy job, just reading to kids and checking out books? I am so glad you asked! Here is a representative sample of what I did one day last week: %Find books with info on Babe Ruth for a teacher. %Go through the fiction section and find all the books that are on a 2nd and 3rd grade reading level. %Talk to Rosemary Brown about how to determine just what constitutes a 2nd and 3rd grade reading level. %Show 7th grade helpers how to mark the 2nd and 3rd grade level fiction. %Pull Thanksgiving and Native American books and make displays so teachers can find them easily. Search for a picture book, I Am Thankful, to add to the display. %Check on 7th grade helpers to be sure they are doing the job right, go over several steps they didnUt understand. %Train a volunteer how to put the nonfiction back on the shelf. %Find books on camouflage for a teacher. %Show volunteer how to stamp the audiovisual kits. %Start to plan how the studentsU check out cards will be filed and retrieved. %Realize my directions on stamping the kits werenUt clear, go over how to stamp kits again, more carefully. %Locate a video of folk tales for a primary teacher. Make a note that several have requested videos based on childrenUs literature and that we have none. %Suddenly remember that two volunteers who usually come on Thursday told me they are coming today. Scramble to find jobs that each will enjoy doing. %Cover two dictionaries with plastic covers. Call down to Central Office and beg for them to send me five more plastic covers so I can cover the rest of the reference books. %Pull a rhyming picture book (usually found in the picture book section) from the music section of nonfiction where it has been very erroneously catalogued. Put it in a growing stack of books that need new call numbers. %Pull a cookbook from a section on crafts and put in growing stack of books that need new call numbers, to be reclassed to the cookbook section. %Make four phone calls, one to a publisher tracking an order we should have by now, two about the operation of the copier, one to request a supply catalog that a teacher asked about. %Help two 6th graders look up VeteranUs Day in the encyclopedia, give a mini-lesson on encyclopedia indexes. Discover that this encyclopedia has next to nothing on VeteranUs Day. Help kids search for another book that does have info. And this is before I get to read to kids and check out books! -- Johanna Halbeisen Woodland Elementary School(K-4) Southwick, Mass jhalbei@k12.oit.umass.edu Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 18:25:32 -0400 From: MarjorieP@AOL.COM Subject: Re: WWW Home Page for Library MediaSpecialists