Inventory and Monthly Report

    This past week, I began taking inventory of the story collection section in the media center.  The previous media specialist kept the majority of the story collection books on a separate shelf from the rest of the collection.  A few books of story collections were placed on a shelf with classics such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Dracula.  I started by printing a shelf list of books with the call number SC to SC.  Once I had the list, I went to the story collection shelf and checked off each book that was located there or on the shelf of classics.  Of the 127 items on the shelf list, I found all but 30.  I then went into the online catalog and entered the barcodes of the missing items.  I found that 2 of the missing items were marked as "Lost and Paid For" in the system.  The remaining 28 books were shown as "In" in the system, but I could not pull up any copy history for most of the items.  I checked the books that are in my office for repair and a box of weeded books that are to be sold to students and teachers.  I thought that some of the weeded books may not have been deleted out of the system.  However, none of the 28 missing books could be found in the media center.  They are unaccounted for, and what happened to these books is a mystery to me.  I did this inventory by hand because I do not know how to do inventory with the scanner.  In fact, I have found three different handheld scanners in the media center office, and I don't know which one should be used.  I was told that the technology specialist could help me with this, so I will contact him before I try to inventory any more of the collection.  According to the notes left by the previous media specialist, no inventory has been done in the past two or three years.   This is definitely something that I plan to do at the end of the school year.   
    At the end of the school day on Thursday, I gathered the Checkout and Fine Statistics report from the online catalog.  I also updated the Excel document that I use to record different services that I provide as media specialist.  I used this information to create a monthly report for my principal.  I included the number of checkouts in the month for students and staff, the amount of fines paid in the month, instruction that I provided to students, collaborative efforts with teachers, technology assistance that I provided, meetings attended, completed projects, current projects, and future projects.  Click on the link to view the monthly report.  http://www.slideshare.net/adeems/monthly-report-for-the-principal
    I was able to meet with the teacher to do some more planning for our collaborative unit.  We meet on Wednesday after school, and we reviewed the Georgia Performance Standards that will the focus of the unit.  We also talked about essential questions, the assessment evidence, and how the unit might progress from beginning to end.  Now I need to focus on preparing for my part of the unit. 

  Here is a picture from the Annie Oakley lesson that I taught on Wednesday.  I used a glog that I had created to review information about Annie Oakley.   

 

Hours in the Media Center:  40

Hours Spent Planning the Collaborative Unit:  .5 hour