Gearing UP and Winding DOWN

May is one of those unusual months with (usually) AP exams, finalizing projects, the start of inventory and shelf order of books, and eventually the start of final exams.

Until this year.

This year everything student related ends in May, including graduation! Instead of having graduation happen 8-10 days into June, seniors will receive diplomas on May 31. (The timing of graduation will be in the morning, rather than evening so hopefully it will be cooler and less likely to have pop-up thunderstorms ruining the ceremony!)

That means we have just returned from spring break (and the assembly of the desk cycles). We gearing up to do a full-implementation all week next week (the only week possible before the library closes for AP exams). I am excited to see how the centers we have planned go!

Each year, the theater arts program uses the library for a modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet; they perform it for the freshmen English classes who are currently reading the play. It's a great deal of fun with a lot of laughs. Rehearsals have been in full swing whenever possible all week. AP exams don't usually interrupt those rehearsals, but in education we have learned to adapt to the requirements of testing...

And I do not think I have ever had shelf-order completed with 99.14% of inventory finished by May 3. EVER. With the fiction section genrefied, and inventory "unaccounted for" results not showing sublocations, finding the remaining books has been an exercise moment.

Seriously.

You take a page of the list of books, go to the action/adventure section and look for them. Check off any found. Then move to Dystopian. Then Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror...and so on until either all books are checked off or you have been to all eleven sections. Then you get another page and start again. This is one way to get more "steps" in for the day! We only have a few days left to finish, then I have to complete the report for the state, clean out the file cabinet and desk drawers, oh! and give my final exams May 21-22...

It's hard to believe this year is coming so quickly to a close! I'm a little sad and a lot excited, but more on that in the next post.