Book Fair Luau!

This week our media center has been quite busy.

Book Fair preparation is in full swing. The theme this year is "Book Fair Luau." While the media center is still fully functional, some decorations have begun to go up. I have experienced book fair for several years, but only from the perspective of a teacher. I'm excited to see more of the inner workings. Book Fair is such a valuable tool in our school now that the media center budget has been cut completely. Funding for new books and materials now comes from SPLOST and Book Fair.

I have begun the weeding process within the media center. Mary D. has not given me a specific section to weed as of yet, due to the fact that she has already done a substantial amount of weeding in the past few months. However, I have been working on evaluating the Destiny report of the materials that have been recently weeded in order to determine the specific criteria of the materials. When I spoke to Mary D. about how she weeds, she said that this weeding was quite overdue. It's more difficult to weed when funding to replace materials is so limited. She says she weeds based on very general guidelines: outdated reference or Dewey materials and damaged or low-circulation fiction. She allows classroom teachers to utilize weeded materials in their classroom. The majority of the non-fiction materials weeded were published in the 1980s or early 1990s. There were a handful of recently published books included in the weeding, but these were extremely popular books that had become worn out. I look forward to do some additional weeding here, or perhaps at one of my secondary observation sites.