3/14/2016

I forgot to mention earlier that among the twenty or so new books that I processed there was one I had recommended to Ms. Gratto. The book is Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older.

All throughout my MLIS program I have been interested in learning more about multicultural children’s literature. Every time I have had the opportunity, I have worked on researching titles with multicultural characters and authors. I had included Older’s Shadowshaper on an Urban Fantasy Recommended Reads list I put together for an LIS 566 Resources for Digital Age Children assignment but I had not had the opportunity to read it. When I first started my DFW at the library I searched for it in the catalog and couldn’t find it. Ms. Gratto had mentioned that one of their collection development goals was to add more multicultural titles to the collection so I recommended Older’s book. Ms. Gratto included Shadowshaper in her latest book order and I not only read it (it was awesome!) but also processed it and added it to the library catalog (which left me with a nice feeling of accomplishment). This week I am going to booktalk this great title and hopefully get some students interested in multicultural literature.

Shadowshaper was included in several Best YA Books of 2015 lists. Including Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2015.

3/1/16

Today I did a full day and I kept busy. I arrived at 8:30am and right away had to go to a classroom to observe Ms. Gratto give a lesson to a 7^th grade class on how to find information for a social sciences assignment. She gave the students a quick review about how indexes work since most of the information they are going to need for the assignment is in their textbook. But she also discussed the different sources available through the library catalog. She had told me she was giving the same lesson to three different 7^th grade groups and because I need more practice teaching, we agreed I would teach one of the lessons. In the end, I only taught half of a lesson because it was a tough group, but I think I did ok at keeping their attention. This was an ESL class, so we played around with one of the databases to show them how they can translate the articles. On e of the students asked me to read out loud in Spanish and we had a bit of fun with that.

In between lessons I finished processing the books, I added spine labels, barcode labels, and I put covers on some of the books (see pics below).

Today was a good and busy day...

Working with indexes

The books have been added to the catalog.

Nos adding labels

New covers

Putting new covers on (this takes some skill!)