Librarians just want to have fun...

I cracked up at this video of librarians (and Library students) doing this riff on Lady Gaga.

What is a Librarian's Job?

Okay, this is NOT a complaint. What it is, however, is a description of the various things I spent my day on. Some of them clearly fall under my other job--Special Programs--but I find that my days are not what many outside the field would envision.


Today I:

• worked on creating a template in Davkah (which supports Hebrew and English) for a booklet that will contain text and artwork by our 5th grade students when they read Torah for the first time.
• designed a Publisher template for an invitation to an event celebrating the learning of our 1st and 2nd graders--the illustration on the invitation will be created by the students using KidPix
• added a new category and link to our staff wiki to help teachers work with special needs students
  
• worked with a teacher and afternoon school principal on creating and finding materials to use on the SMART board--included teaching how to do a screenshot
• helped 5th graders use their personal log on for one of the first times
• worked with a teacher to create a few shelves of "good books" for 7th and 8th graders
• worked on a SMART board lesson on "Ben's Dream," a Chris Van Allsburg picture book
• planned my lessons for the week, which includes having 3rd and 4th graders begin to do basic research on some popular children's authors
• took down a display case on the Bubble festival which we did about 6 weeks ago

Gee, I'm tired just looking at the list! No wonder I come home and want to take a nap. I confess, if someone had told me 10 to 15 years ago that my job would involve so much time on the computer, I would have laughed. But I find myself energized by the interaction between reading and using technology--I enjoy the daily complexity I encounter. Now if only someone could invent a book that puts itself away....

Thing 25-- Continued

I decided I wanted to play around with blogging in a different way. I set up a blog on Wordpress (http://las4poems.wordpress.com/ to focus on my poetry. Let me just say—I really understand why we were encouraged to try Blogger as newbies. I like the cleaner look of the Wordpress layout and the fact that I could customize it, but it was much less intuitive to navigate and more difficult to figure out what I was doing.

I also played with creating a Simpsons-style avatar. I think it worked okay, but I like the flexibility of the Yahoo ones better.

So my goal now is to use this blog to focus on Librarian and teacher type things, and to use http://las4poems.wordpress.com/ to focus on my poetry. Gee, are we shocked that a librarian would want to separate and categorize things?