The library in Diomede got a facelift over the past year. I showed up on Monday to put the books away. I am hoping to be finished in a week’s time. To understand, in order to get to Diomede you have to take a plane to Wales, Alaska, transfer to a helicoptor and fly the [...]

The students in White Mountain are known for doing a great job with Battle of the Books.  This year they were up to task.  It was a strong race in 7-8th grade, coming down to a tie breaker round between White Mountain and Wales students. Now is the time to get started for next year’s [...]

This is our week for Battle of the Books competition at the district level. Questions are ready.  Times are set.  Teams are scheduled to appear.   Now is the time to evaluate how many students does Battle of the Books affect. How do I get more students interested in participating? With the move to ebooks, [...]

I will be updating what the perfect school library environment looks like for the next week or so. 1. Time — The library aide needs to have time to plan for their classes, do the library housework, and allow teachers and students 15 minutes a day to find a new book. 2. Space — I [...]

It has been a great start to the school year.  Today I am in Gambell, Alaska training a new library aide.  I had an order of 300 books arrive at the school.  We were able to scan each bar code and make sure it works in the Koha system.  It should be a wonderful week.

I can tell it is summer time because the office is getting emptier and emptier.  I am looking at my summer plans which are FANTASTIC. 1.  Get my private pilot’s license. 2.  Merge my MARC records to have a true union catalog. 3.  Not so fantastic – burrow my way out of my office. Here [...]

I can tell it is summer time because the office is getting emptier and emptier.  I am looking at my summer plans which are FANTASTIC. 1.  Get my private pilot’s license. 2.  Merge my MARC records to have a true union catalog. 3.  Not so fantastic – burrow my way out of my office. Here [...]

It is sometimes hard to judge how your year is going mid-year. I have been recently thinking that I am not doing enough. Then I came across several things to help me rethink that. A list of accomplishments from the yearly report of my predecessor. Quick check shows me in line for accomplishing a similar [...]

I am working on a Toshiba laptop that I have put Ubuntu on.  I thought it would be easier to get Koha working on it.  This has been a year of cleaning and organizing the library though and not working on the computer.  Going into Christmas break, though, I plan on taking the computers and [...]

This year we are reorganizing the media center and trying to organize the database for Koha so that it looks better.  This will be a long process that will only be accomplished with small steps along the way. Last week, I went to Shaktoolik.  I uploaded a bunch of books and got them processed and [...]