Re: [LM_NET] TAR:What interesting thing do you keep at the circ desk

[Wendy Stoll <wenreads@YAHOO.COM>]

I don't know how you guys have room for all this stuff on your circ desks! I have a 
desk calendar, a pile of catalogs I'm currently using, and a file box of library 
cards.
However, all these things are apparently of GREAT interest, because the kids can't 
keep their hands off of them!  In fact, the file box of library cards got dumped on 
the floor because of this...over 500 cards sorted by teacher <sigh>.

Behind my desk, hanging from a hook in the wall is a wooden mouse, about 6 inches 
long, with floppy legs.  It is suspended from a VERY springy spring, and gets 
pulled when the class is very good :-)
 
Wendy Stoll, Librarian
Smyrna Elementary School
Louisville, KY 
wenreads@yahoo.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Toni Koontz <akoontz@CDEDUCATION.ORG>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:16:43 PM
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] TAR:What interesting thing do you keep at the circ desk

My library is a converted chapel and highly ornamented with stained glass windows, 
the original altar, decorated arches,  a painted canvas ceiling of angels.  Because 
of this I don't have a lot of space for other decorations.  The circ desk is pretty 
bare because my assistant is there and she doesn't like stuff around.  Besides, the 
boys always end up around my desk.


On my desk I have: an African Violet sitting under my Ottlite, bamboo stems in a 
ceramic vase made by a former student in Art class (I need living things around 
me), a small easel that I use to display interesting quotes or cartoons about 
reading, libraries, character - currently "Do not footle lest you become a 
flaneur", a toy cardinal that chirps when pressed (our mascot), a Nancy Pearl 
action figure, a small statue of the Virgin Mary, an apple shaped stress ball, a 
ceramic bunny that will be replaced next week with a hen and rooster in spring 
outfits and in May with sports figures and other months with season appropriate 
figurines.  



Toni Koontz
Librarian
St. Charles Preparatory School
Columbus, Ohio
akoontz@cdeducation.org
Carpe Diem

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