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=Pearsontown Elementary School Media Center 2.1=

I worked with Sean George after school was out in June and before school started. Pearsontown is a year-round school and the students started back on July 18th. I asked Sean to teach me some of the more mundane aspects of librarianship. He taught me how to do inventory and explained why he thought it was important. He taught me how to take books out of the collection and the Destiny OPAC, how to add books, magazines, videos and other resources. How to create spine labels and barcode labels and the proper way to add them to a picture book and why there is a proper way. He showed me how to put Mylar on books (It took a few tries before I got it right). He explained why the media center is organized the way it is and how it has changed and changes he wants to make in the future. I also did a lot of shelving. I found this to be a great way to get to know the collection. I spent more time in the picture book section than anywhere else. It is difficult to handle children's picture books without stopping to read them.

Sean has an encyclopedic knowledge of his collection and he was very generous with his time and expertise. On my last day, he was orienting students back to the library. With the younger students he played a game of circle ball. Kids would roll the ball to someone and then they would have a chance to answer the library-related question. The older students got to play jeopardy. The picture below shows them raising their hands when someone missed the answer.