Kelly Elementary School is the 4th library I manage and teach classes at, half a day a week (the morning of the same day I go to Moran). It is in the closest to me as it is essentially in my backyard.
Kelly is an unincorporated township/village/whathaveyou bordered by Grand Teton National Park, north of Jackson. The population is about 200 and the school has about 40 students, in combined grades, on a 2-year curriculum cycle.
I took these pictures yesterday, when I had an inservice day and was able to spend the afternoon with Mac, the library para, and Jan, the district library supervisor, doing an overhaul of some of the older library materials and the things that have piled up. There is no more room on the shelves for new books, so some things will have to go if we want to update the collection to make it more accurate, current, and accessible. We made a lot of progress yesterday, even if we made a mess.
The library is down a set of stairs. (It does not always have those piles on the table, those were special for the work day!)
The library space is used for library, as well as some math classes, reading classes, a weather station…many things.
Like some of the other libraries, it has unique sections – like an easy reader AND a picture book section, which means the cataloging is different for each of the libraries (and so are the call numbers). Right now, at Kelly, the Easy Readers can be identified by yellow stickers on the call number which is a single letter. Picture books have a white sticker with a single letter, vs. E ABC or P ABC, etc. This is why if a book is withdrawn from Kelly because it’s a duplicate, for example, and taken to another library, it will need reprocessing for a new call number (as well as barcode) and, of course, recataloged. This is the E section:
Here is the “book drop,” where students return their books (the laundry basket). Behind it is the P section.
In front of the non-fiction section, you can see our new book cart! Lori Clark-Erikson from the high school was kind enough to give it to us – it makes a huge difference in library operations, actually, in storing and shelving. We didn’t have one there before and shelved from the tables.
Mac and Jan, training on cataloging and ZMARC in Infocentre on our inservice afternoon, after weeding the reference collection and cleaning out one of the closets, running weeding reports, etc.
Some of the piles we attacked:
And finally, here are the doves that are at the top of the stairs. They coo while I teach. I like them. Ruth V., the combined K/1 teacher and original library-starter, is amazing with animals.
