August 2013

Well, it's been a long long while since the last posting, perhaps this year I should get back to posting a few things that go on in the Rummel Creek Library.  This year marks my 24th year at RCE and it marks the last year we will be in this building.  As much as I look forward to the new building, the current building has so many memories or people and events.  Hopefully this year - I can remember some of the fun memories from the early days.
Pardon me, as I skip back 24 years to the first time I walked on to the Rummel Creek campus.  A friend of mine taught at the school and kept telling me I needed to get a job there.  We had purchased a house in the neighborhood as we had read such good things about the school and my friend was always so positive about the school.  So here I was ....a brand new kindergarten mom...ready to register my child for school the following year.  I walked into the school library for the kindergarten orientation, met the teachers and the principal and felt very good about my child attending RCE.  The library had the smell of books with tall shelves going around the perimeter of the room.  A few big windows let in light.  I thought it was a nice place, but it was not "my home" yet.  At that time I still worked for another district and was looking to getting into Spring Branch to have the same calendar as my daughter.  As fate would have it, Rummel Creek opened just in time for me to take the library as my daughter entered kindergarten.  I'm not so sure she was happy I was there....but I was!
I walked into the library in August of 1990, and found stacks of books everywhere.  It took me a few weeks to get things organized and ready for the students.  Both of my daughters spent nearly a week playing dolls in the library as I tried to get things ready to go for the first day of school.  I had left a school of 1500 students and come to RCE with a students population of 430.  It was wonderful.   I walked into a collection that took me back to my childhood, the books that I had loved so dearly (I still need to weed out a few of those 1962 books!).  I also walked into a school that didn't have a computerized circ system - I was back to cards and pockets!  Cards and pockets don't sound too bad...until you have a stack of "snags" sitting under the desk because you can't match cards to books.
With in the first two years of coming to RCE we began conversion for a computerized circ system.  Thank goodness!   (thank goodness for great volunteers who helped speed up the process!)  And the library has never looked back!

School opens in a few short weeks, with out my girls' help...I guess it's time to get back into the library and straighten up for the students this year. Happy Reading!