Tales from a Loud Librarian

Enjoying lunch while chatting about the book On September 7th, the members of BRiMS were finally able to have their first book group meeting of the year. The meeting was originally scheduled for August 29th, the day that Hurricane Isaac blew through town. The school system had closed down the schools for seven days because of Isaac, and we kept changing the date of BRiMS every time the district announced a new return date for the students. It was crazy not knowing day to day when school would reopen. On September 6th, we did get back to work.  For this event we discussed the Richard Peck book, The Teacher's Funeral . I selected the book because I read it years ago and remembered how funny it was. The story is set in rural Indiana in 1904. This is like living on another planet to today's middle school students. Since I purchased the book for the library, no one had read it. Students at PFTSTA are not big readers of historical fiction. I knew that if I required them...

All those green lines means New Orleans has rejoined the grid. Unfortunately, there are still areas waiting for power to be restored. Due to much damage and problems throughout Jefferson Parish, school will not resume until Thursday, September 6th. Crazy, I know. School has barely started, and we will be out for 7 days due to Hurricane Isaac. We are going to have to make up these days, but I am still going to spend the next two days catching up with some library work. I will be at school tomorrow with or without students. However, I won't be getting up at 5:30 to get there for 7AM. Now that would be ridiculous. 

Hurricane Isaac downs a tree in my neighborhood in uptown New Orleans School begins early in southern Louisiana. The teachers' first day was August 6th, and the students entered the building with their smiling faces on August 9th. After August 9th, I was in full-on school mode. In other words, I was incredibly busy. Teachers were scheduling classes, the high school book group was selecting the new ARCs to read, I was soliciting members for the middle school book group, and I needed to do a lot of cleaning and editing of all my electronic resources. Then we hit a snag when Isaac decided to pay a visit. When we left school on Friday the 24th, we had no clue that we would not return for a week. I think that I left my printer and speakers on, though I know that I turned off all the desktop computers. I had reading material at home, but I left a stack of books that I really wanted to read sitting on the circulation desk. The time off did give me a chance to finish the novel, The Te...