Here is the end result: A Day in the Life of Miss Katie.
8:45am Arrive at the library
- Check library email
- Print out Reader's Theater Scripts for 5th grade class visit.
- Take out and review selected books for Baby/Toddler Lap Time.
- Work a little bit on a document I'm writing to help parents get the most out of story time.
9:30-10:30 At the desk.
- Help a mom find bird books for her reluctant reader fourth grader son.
- Recommend The Trouble with Chickens, The Falcon's Nest (A to Z Mysteries), The Mystery in the Amazon Rainforest (Carole Marsh Mysteries), and The Cuckoo Boy.)
10:50 Discover that someone has taken and possibly checked out one of my story time books.
- Head back into the storage closet for a replacement.
11:30 Clean up lap time supplies.
- Chat with the nannies and toddlers who come up to talk to me.
- Write up today's lap time session.
- Begin planning preschool story time for Monday.
- Print more copies of my story time songs sheet, as requested by a customer.
12:45 Prepare for 5th grade class visit.
12:55 5th grade arrives five minutes early!
- Pass out reader's theater scripts and have kids pick roles out of a basket.
1:30 - 3:30 At the desk again.
- Respond to emails from local teachers regarding digital resources for third grade geography, and a first grade class visit.
- Help second grade girl who is a voracious reader find books on animals for her report, and fiction recommendations to expand her horizons beyond Frannie K. Stein.
- Recommend Mallory McDonald, Moxy Maxwell, Roxie and the Hooligans, Scab for Treasurer.
- Pull holds to be sent out to other libraries
- Clean up the books kids left lying around the library. Attempt to straighten up the bins and displays.
- Clean up crayons found in bins and on the floor.
- Help fellow staff member locate a stool that someone had snuck into the story time room.
- Reshelve some Fall picture books I've been holding in the storage closet for the last month and a half.
- Take photograph of flannel props for next week's Flannel Friday post.
3:40 Check library email again.
3:50 Go back to planning story time for Monday.
- Ask on Twitter for help with monster fingerplays.
- Chat in passing with the circulation staff as they come in and out of the work room.
- Print out pathfinders for Star Wars and Magic School Bus books.
4:35 Go back to story time planning yet again, but get interrupted by circ staff who have a children's item that was returned with pieces missing.
- Find form email that I send to customers about missing items. Email customer.
- Chat with boss about how many copies of The Help we have in the library.
5:10 Finish story time planning, with help from fellow tweeting librarians Anna and Mary.
- Write down story time repertoire in steno notebook
- Check out a few books for myself, including some Cybils nominees.
- Pack up my bag and stow story time books in closet.
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