Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts

Yesterday I was so upset because my removing 1165 books from the catalog hardly made a dent in bringing up my average age of the collection. So I set my helpers to finding 1000+ books from the Fiction section to be discarded. We began that process today. While they worked, I began to study the [...]

I just blogged about this over on SCASL Blogs! but wanted to share the love here to! Here is the post from over there, just in case you don’t subscribe to that one! Today is Blog Day 2007, and there is a “meme” of sorts going around. So I must first post the instructions, and [...]

I am just a little disappointed. You see for the last eight school days (give or take) there has been a major focus on weeding, particularly the nonfiction section of our collection. We came back this summer to all the books from mid 550 through 818 boxed up due to the addition of our production [...]

Okay so I get up a little earlier each morning for this vice of mine called blog reading, and imagine my shock, surprise, and delight to find that Doug Johnson, author of the Blue Skunk Blog, had read my post (titled Come Ride the Wave of Web 2.0 and Information Literacy) over on SCASL Blogs! [...]

I discovered today that I am in need of statistics.  This is an SYP post by the way, so I may stray from topic to topic, and ramble, as I do more frequently than not.  I’ve distributed around a dozen printer cartridges since teachers returned.  I sadly discovered that the library is responsible for providing [...]

Wow, I’m posting something again in one day.  Shame on me.  But son #1 is in Chicago for college–his sophomore classes start next week.  And high school junior son #2  is out with his teenaged friends for a little while. And hubby is fast asleep on the couch.  So I was cruising through my Bloglines–I [...]

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Friday (yesterday) at school we had a day long staff development (last day before our kids return Monday) to review the faculty handbook, the school discipline plan, and our summer reading project, What Great Teachers Do Differently. We had a great conversation aout this book, and we studied our behavior plan (PBIS–which stands for Positive [...]

There will be no more titles of posts as SYP.  I cannot shake the feeling that my use of “SYP” sounds like a complaint.  I will continue to share findings in my new job here, as it is rather cleansing to blog and reflect on what I accomplish or learn each day in my job.  [...]

Okay prepare yourself.  Here are 2 pictures of the books that were weeded from the library. I am lucky in that my school has the remote “Panther” scanner, and so it was a breeze to scan all 431 books pictured here.  We are only about a fourth of the way through here too.  It’s scary [...]