This is harder than I thought it would be.

The first official e-mail I received as the Nibley librarian was a little disturbing, but since I wasn't literate in Library Lingo, I wasn't really sure. I took my e-mail to a librarian friend to see if the message meant what I thought it did. Sure enough I found that I was required by my district to re-barcode my entire collection. However, because of technicalities I couldn't begin the job yet. Also, over the summer, library time at my school had been changed to a prep time. This meant that teachers would no longer acccompany their classes to the library. Instead the time their class spent in the library would be their time to prepare. I was not sure how this would affect me, but I felt anxious about what this change might bring. The initial problem that being "prep" brought me was that I was unable to close the library in order to handle the re-barcoding process. Nibley Library was open to students beginning the first day of school. I felt badly that my initial lesson to students had to include issues such as why students could not check out books or take Reading Counts quizzes (yet another technical issue). Welcome to the library!