Last Day

Today was my final day at Nebinger. I will miss it.

WI 2017-18 - INFO I699-001: Independent Study: Nebinger School :Day 43, :3/22/2018

Nebinger was closed the past two days, due to snow.

Today I worked on a small stash of books I had set aside for further research. The two groups were the Horrible Harry series and the Ramona series. After looking on Follett's website and comparing it to Scholastic's information, I could make the determination that while the Horrible Harry series belongs with the Early Chapter series books, the Ramona Quimby series belongs shelved with the Juvenile (Junior) Fiction. I also came across two books written by the same author, housed side-by-side in the Juvenile (Junior) section that had each other's barcode's on them. I switched the barcodes to their appropriate book. Tomorrow is my last day at Nebinger.

Ramona series properly shelved in JF section:

The mis-labeled books from JF section:

WI 2017-18 - INFO I699-001: Independent Study: Nebinger School :Day 42, :3/19/2018

 I continued confirming the cataloging in the JF section.   I worked on K. I did not find any  uncataloged items, but I did find a few Teen/YA titles and EF titles mixed in. I removed those items and reshelved them in their appropriate sections. I applied dot labels to those books I checked today. 

Unfortunately, the bright blue dots for the JF section ran out. Debbie S. my liason from Nebinger Friends was there aplying dot labels to the JF section. Amy C. was there too today, volunteering her time. I took a moment and showed her that any dot labels that were not adhering could be covered with a clear label tape. Amy showed me that she had just applied a little more pressure to some dot labels and that seemed to do the trick.

Debbie and I took some time to discuss the progress of the library. Debbie is most appreciative of the progress that has been made. I am dissapointed that I was unable to get to the multitude of donated books and get them sorted and potentially added to the collection, but that will have to be the task for a subsequent Drexel MLIS intern. 

WI 2017-18 - INFO I699-001: Independent Study: Nebinger School :Day 41, :3/16/2018

Today my colleague Amey and I continued confirming the cataloging in the JF section.  Amey worked on Et-F while I worked on La-Le. As usual, we found some uncataloged items and some Teen/YA titles and EF titles mixed in. We removed those items and reshelved them in their appropriate sections. We applied dot labels to those books we checked today. Today was Amey's last day volunteering. I am deeply indebted to her for her assistance. 

JF section with Amey

WI 2017-18 - INFO I699-001: Independent Study: Nebinger School :Day 40, :3/15/2018

No catalog checking got done today. Today I brought over the 30 bookends donated from Penn Libraries. I put them in the places that needed bookends and put the remaining few in one of the closets. These bookends will help stabilize the books on the shelves, thus preserving the integrityof the binding of the books and thereby extending the shelf life of the books in the collection. I am indebted to the group of colleagues at Penn Libraries who coordinated the effort of this donation: Sal, Eva, Peter, Rhada, and Ancil, the Penn Libraries Outreach Librarian, who put those wheels in motion.

Bookends:

Bookends in the JF section:

After that, I was able to finish the shelf section labeling, because earlier in the week Lisa of the Nebinger Friends  provided the needed label material for the P-touch machine. Hopefully this will make it eassier for students to identify the section they need to find a particular book, as well as make re-shelving those books a faster process.

Labeled Book Sections:

Tomorrow: back to cataloging.

WI 2017-18 - INFO I699-001: Independent Study: Nebinger School :Day 39, :3/14/2018

Today I continued working on checking and cataloging the Juvenile Fiction section, La-Ly. I also put dot labels (dark blue) on those books I checked. As usual, I found some Teen/YA fiction and some Easy Chapter and Early Reader books mixed in. They were weeded out and re-shelved in their appropriate sections. 

JF: La-Ly

WI 2017-18 - INFO I699-001: Independent Study: Nebinger School :Day 38, :3/13/2018

Today I continued working on checking and cataloging the Juvenile Fiction section, Lo-Ly. I also put dot labels on those books I checked. As per usual, I found some Teen/YA fiction (The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry) and some Easy Chapter and Early Reader books mixed in. They were weeded out and re-shelved in their appropriate sections. No pictures today, more pictures tomorrow.