It's January and I'm finally posting again. We've been in our Transition Campus for 5 months with students. We've started settling in, however with the cold dreary weather of January it hasn't been much fun. Duty in the morning on the front of the school has been most cold and windy. I have found coats, gloves, and other coverings that I didn't know I owned. Today is finally sunny, and it feels so good.
As far as being at the Transition Campus, it's not too bad. The students are doing well with the collection of books that we have selected to bring over. So far we haven't had too many requests that we haven't been able to fill. When you are in a small space, you learn what you really need to exist and what is "fluff." In the library, we've always had a lot of fluff and filling. After being here for these five months, I think my collection will stay just about this size when we move into the new building. I'll just have to keep adding new updated titles, but keep the old stuff moving out. I know I need to monitor what kids are actually reading and what just sits on the shelf. The hard part about that is that my favorite books are just sitting on the shelf. (No one reads Ramona any more...I love the Ramona books!) Perhaps it's time to do some book talks to get the Ramona books moving again...
I'm posting some photos of the new building. It's amazing...it will be SOOOOO big...hard to believe that Rummel Creek will be this big! The gym used to dwarf the rest of the school, and now the gym is the little building in the back...Amazing!
