Today the whole staff reported for work, we had meetings until noon then were in the library trying to get organized for who knows what who knows when. Tomorrow will be the same with the kids coming on Thursday.
As of now the kids are not going to be allowed in the building before 8 am. They also are not allowed to leave lunch to come to the library on their own until we have a card reader ~ and they all have id badges ~ so they can scan themselves into the library. We were promised to have new security in place by mid-October. Hoping to find a way to get our 'regulars' in before then!
We also have our final 2009-2010 budget spent - love the way you have to use your budget before the beginning of school. As of now we are not getting full use of our computer system since the district hasn't yet paid the bill but we have heard that most of our requisitions were fulfilled.
Anyway we were allotted a little less than 20 per kid, since the superintendent promised we'd get 25 per two years ago we figure we're in the right ballpark, just on the walkway, not in the bleachers yet. In the past five years my particular library has gone from 3 full time employees (2 librarians and an aide) and over 125K budget to 2 librarians and less than 40K to spend - which is twice what we had last year so we're headed in the right direction, baby steps but going the right way finally. Five years ago the budget was so big in order to bring computers to the library, this year we won't make it through the first marking period with those and are hoping against hope that they'll be replaced soon. Fingers, toes and eyes crossed.
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