Moving Day

How peaceful and relaxing it was for the last 15 minutes of the day to sit back and look at where I'll be working for the next 6 weeks in the temporary library, or as I've affectionately called it the "Skeleton Library Service". Moving today was extremely handy as it tied in with the Year 11s leaving, and there were surplus bodies floating around looking for jobs (oh, what an appropriate pun!) so they were quickly commandeered and ended up taking all of the fiction stock over. The skeleton library consists of the current magazines, newspapers, a few comfy chairs, all of the fiction stock, the reference stock and a desk for quiet study - that's it, apart from a special friend on the left of the picture who has yet to be named! The only real worry I have at the moment is that I can't access the Library Management System, due to a technicality that I'm told will hopefully be resolved by tomorrow morning. The concern is that I've got a class scheduled in for the first period so potentially won't be able to issue anything....

I had a couple of comments from students who were passing through, about the library: the first was that they thought the NEW library was better than the old one (I don't think they've quite understood the concept of a temporary library) and the other said they preferred the books in crates than on shelves.... Someone out there please remind me exactly why we're doing this project ?!

Note - Having thought about calling the library a "Skeleton Service", there's actually a bit of meat in there, so perhaps I'll call it the "Anorexic Library Service".... Perhaps not. Any appropriate suggestions please add them to the comments section!