I get to spend about 3-4 hours a week (an afternoon) working at the Moran school library, which is up north, right near Yellowstone National Park, at the Moran Junction. It is about 40 minutes drive each way, depending on road closures. There are two teachers and a dog, and sometimes in the playground, you’ll find a bear (hopefully not during recess). There are 14 students, and they are divided into an upper class and a lower class by grade level. I teach classes most of the time I am there each week, all but 45 minutes or so, and don’t get a chance to “dig in” too much, unless I take an inservice day. I had a chance twice this year, so far, to spend a day at Moran to shelve, catalog, and work on the library. Cataloging is a big issue there because about 1 in 4 books do not show up when you scan them into the system, and many were never processed or cataloged at all. I just now got the new books on the shelves because they needed processed and A.R. tests and I could only get through a few each week. There is almost as much to do with this collection as there is at Alta, because fixing records often takes longer than starting new, from scratch, and there is a good amount of fixing to do because so many records fell out of the system the last time they switched automation systems. But either way, it’s a wonderful space, and I am proud of how it looks right now, after the chance to spend a day there Tuesday:
I started with the “easy reader” section. First, I pulled out the books that did not belong in that section (non-fiction and fiction), and then I shelf-read, putting books in order and pulling the books with no call numbers or spine labels – this makes up about 1/3 of the collection – for processing (at a later date). Then, I moved all of the books onto shelves to be in correct library order, reading with the shelves going down, not across. I want the kids to be able to use the middle school library in town when they graduate to it, and the public library, so it’s best to put things in an order they will recognize where ever they go. It’s also a part of the standards I need to meet as a teacher-librarian. I also began to label the shelves – with post-its, for now.
If the book is on the floor, there is something wrong with it and it needs to be either re-cataloged or re-processed. I have a pile of a few hundred of these at the moment, in book carts and sitting in an easy chair! But the Easy Reader section is looking great, and it’s a great place to start.
And of course, making piles while listening to CNN radio after school on election day. This is the basket for books to check in and the rest are books that need new records or spine labels. 
And some books that “fell out” of the system, on the counter ready to be entered back in:
