I am going to switch gears for this entry and talk about my afternoon in the public library. I have been spending time observing in the children's area at this library, but my blog is specific to my time at Chocowinity Primary School. Having been a slow week at CPS, I decided to blog about my public library time today.
Since I have been in a crazy, hectic, stressed school daze, I decided to make valuable use of my time today and kill two birds with one stone. I have been trying to finish up an assignment for 6135, so I used this opportunity to catch up on some of my reading for that class while observing the activities at Brown Library in Washington. Knowing what books I needed ahead of time, I consulted their OPAC, and then arrived at the library armed and ready with my call numbers. I found the two books, Weedflower and Sophisticated Ladies: The Great Women of Jazz, and took a seat at one of the comfortable reading chairs. Our assignment is to create an annotated list of several award winning elementary and middle school titles, and it is proving to be more challenging than I had expected. Several variables have to match up, and we have to have access to these books. That is where I am having the biggest problem. Brown Library does not exactly have the best selection of titles, and they are not very adamant about people returning books and paying overdue fees. One book I am still trying to find has been overdue since August!
These two books, Weedflower and Sophisticated Ladies, are on the Jane Addams Children's Book Award list and Carter G. Woodson Book Award list, respectively. Since I have some time to kill this afternoon, I plan to read both of these books while observing the library in action. Right now there is not much to report, but I have a feeling things will pick up as the kids get out of school. Stay tuned!
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