Learning to let go

Before I became a school librarian, the end was easy: in the corporate world, you handed in your two week's notice, possibly trained your replacement, and moved on, and in the theatre world the production ended and you moved on.  Easy.  But in schools, things aren't quite so cut-and-dried.  I know at least one Head…

The value of hoarding

My father's family seems to have the packrat gene.  Maybe it's a "we escaped the shtetl and feel safe enough to acquire stuff" mentality, or the Depression Era mentality, or truly a genetic thing, but they're packrats.  Wait!  This is relevant!!  My grandfather was a tax attorney who managed to acquire - as payment -…

Bad trends

One of the hats I wear is that of Online Bookstore Manager, which means I corral the textbooks our teachers are requiring, uploading the information into our online bookstore, and monitoring for problems (for example, out-of-print materials). The adjunct part of that is that parents contact me about what their child will be required to…