Hang in there!

Hello ladies! Well, the countdown is on. Only four (well, three and a half) more days until Christmas break. I think I am more excited than the students. Unlike the Kansans in the crowd, we did not even get a late start or early dismissal out of last week's storms. However, I was glad to hear that everyone was safe with all of that ice. I definitely agree that ice is much worse than snow, especially when it snows on top of ice.

But anyway, I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and great start to the new year. I am going to Wisconsin on Friday morning and will be back the following weekend to spend our first new year's eve in Denver. Then, I get a week off of school before returning on January 7th. I am definitely glad we get two weeks this year. That will be nice. I hope all is well with all of you! I miss you guys!

Nothing to do with libraries whatsoever

Have you ever heard about the "Have a Happy Period" letter that some woman supposedly wrote to Proctor & Gamble? Well, the letter was an actual blog entry written by Wendi Aarons. This woman is hillarious! Check out her blog at http://wendi-aarons.blogspot.com/. I laughed so hard that Les probably thought I was going crazy!

Book genre?

I have a friend that does not read...I know how could I possibly be friends with someone who does not read??? However, she emailed me a couple of days ago about a book called The Angels of Morgan Hill. She says she wants books just like that one! She read it in one day and now she wants to get into books. Of course, I'm struggling with this genre. All she stold me was: Going back into history, how families struggle, but yet needs to be inspirational...she's not the churchy type so I don't think she wants Christian-inspirational fiction. Any suggestions? My first thought was Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts. Or Richard Paul Evans whom I have never read...doesn't he only write those Christmas stories? Let me know if you can pass along any titles.

Scheduling

Hello again! I just remembered that I had another question to ask of you ladies. What does your library schedule look like? What I mean is do you meet with all of your classes once a week for a scheduled library time and check out? Or, do you separate library time from check out time and have two separate times each week? Or, do you have completely flexibly scheduling? If you have a flexible schedule, how do you manage that? How do you get teachers to come in and sign up for times? Right now, my schedule is not working so I am brainstorming to try to come up with a better way to do it! Any thoughts?

Computer Equipment Question

Hello ladies! I have a question for all of you. At my school, we have 3 laptop carts, 5 TV carts, and 3 elmos which are stored and checked out from the library. How do you guys manage your equipment? How do you set up schedules for people to sign-up to take the equipment? Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated. Right now, I have a sign up sheet for each day of the week and am manually signing people up. They email me to check the date/time, and I email them back letting them know if it is available or not. This is such a simple thing, but it is consuming too much of my time! Thanks!