Well, the answer is that the camera people are in fact at fault for the cable breach, but it wasn't just a little snip. They hit the entire wad of fiber optic cables with a concrete drill. It's finally fixed now, and we're all caught up with our zillions of backlogged circulation tasks. We don't know who is going to foot the $5000 bill for all the fixing, but since we're pretty sure it's not us, we are not sticking our noses in it anymore. It was quite the little disaster and I'm sorry it happened, but I reckon I'm glad I got to watch it since it did happen.
Other than that, this week we had book fair, which was pretty much as you'd expect it to be. I learned lots of things about money, how to make deposits with the book keeper, etc. We had some wonderful parent volunteers in all week, which was a HUGE help. Scholastic does not hold you responsible for theft, but it's still bad, so one thing Carole does to combat it is she just forbids anybody to wear a coat or sweatshirt in the book fair; if they are not comfortable taking their jacket off for whatever reason, or if doing so would cause them a problem with the dress code, then they can sit on the other side of the library and read. The other noteworthy point about book fair was that Carole does a pizza dinner during her family night when she keeps the fair open late, where they can buy tickets ahead of time for $6.00 each that get them a drink, two pizza slices, a salad, and a dessert. It was a nice but not huge turnout, and it raised only a little money, but the point of it was just to have fun and socialize at the book fair, which I thought it accomplished well.
In other news, I was pretty bummed to hear from Kristin and Lisa today about the loss of librarian positions at Central and Karns. The one at Central of course means they're not replacing Nancy, which is very sad but with their wonderful wonderful secretary they should make it okay. I think I've mentioned before that I don't really know how they could afford to have two librarians and a full-time secretary anyway, with only 1300-ish students, and given that, I guess if I was the principal I'd probably have made that cut too if it saved a teacher. I'm afraid the loss at Karns will mean Jackie Porter, unless her co-librarian is retiring and I don't know it. Sad news. Those are the only local librarian cuts I've heard about so far.
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