Athena’s Banquet

Today I:

• Observed Storytime for pre-schoolers.  We did a bug theme since the Bee-Boppin’ Bugs program is happening on Monday (although apparently that is so popular it needs no additional advertising.  We shall see.).  Ten Little Ladybugs (which is a very cute book with little plastic ladybugs through cut-out windows), acting out being a hungry caterpillar, and reading (of course!) The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  Such a very cute book (and, not related to library-stuff at all, is giving me wicked awesome ideas about baby quilts.)  It was amazing the energy that zoomed through the room when my supervisor pulled up that book; kids were absolutely shouting that they had read it at home and were thrilled to get to read it again.

  We also acted out the Itsy Bitsy Spider – my supervisor intended to do it as a feltboard, but realized halfway through that the kids only did the hand motions when she was doing them herself, and weren’t doing them while she did the feltboard.  Not to mention that the song wasn’t very well-adapted to a feltboard; it’s too short and quick to really allow you to place the felt pieces appropriately.



• I spent a good chunk of time working on my weeding project and am nearly done with it.  I was mostly working on the animals region of the 500s (round the 590s) and started to get really ruthless – we do NOT need a full shelf of books on dolphins!  I was pretty much pulling anything more than 10 years old, and then evaluating to see if it circulated (although honestly even that wouldn’t necessarily save a book – I think ALL the dolphin books circulated, and we STILL don’t need a full shelf of them) or if there was something special about it (and that would save a book, because special books are special).


• I also had an interesting reference question from a boy looking for some books on video game design.  It took a little bit to figure out whether he wanted books on writing video games (the coding and calculus stuff) or designing video games (writing the plots and characters and world-building).  It turns out he wanted the latter, which stumped me pretty badly; my supervisor leaned over and suggested doing a subject browse for video games and then seeing what sub-headings there were.  Once I found the right subject heading, it was pretty easy to find some books to put on hold and on the shelves.  Still, I should have thought of that myself.  Oh well.