The best laid plans . . .

Today was largely about extension cords. And the fire marshall who didn't like where they were. By the end of the last school year, the workroom of the media center was full of new data projectors waiting to be installed. The library spent considerable funds on those rubber strips that lay on the carpet and keep folks from tripping on the cords. And they'd bought lovely new, heavy-duty extension cords to go in them--and somehow managed to find the cords in the school colors of red and black. I was there just after all the installing was finished. Sandra and Diane were full of stories about crawling on the floor and using miles of duct tape to keep them down. Well, all of that was undone yesterday and today after the fire marshall declared the extensions cords inappropriate, despite their colors. So all the data projectors had to be moved to AV carts, the extension cords removed, and the AV cart cords inserted into the rubber strips and then re-taped to the carpet.

The good news is that it is all done. The library now has a generous stash of brightly colored extension cords. And someone had the foresight to put all the cabinets in the classrooms on trolleys so they were easy to move away from the recepticles we needed to access.

In and amongst all this excitement I was able to visit with the art teacher who would like to do a section on weaving. I gave her my contact information (I'm a weaver in my other life) and hope I'll get to help her some when she's ready to plan. I also got to observe another research class in the library. The teacher who was having students write resumes for volcanoes was having them create "wanted" posters of famous scientists following a biographical outline. Not only were they learning about the lives of the scientists, but were learning to insert pictures into Word documents and explore formatting. And the 8th graders made it in for their library orientation.

All in all, it was a busy day. There were classes in the library for all but one period which meant lots of circulation. Generally volunteers do the shelving. But today, Diane asked me to shelve a stack of books with stickers on them. The popular series books are all housed on shelves just inside the library door. They have yellow dots on them. Diane said she wanted them back on the shelves ASAP as they were so in demand. So I got the stack on the shelves just before lunch. And after lunch, I was checking those same books out again. Think I could develop circulation envy.