Emily's Musings

Refgrunt, 9/6

Busy night on the J desk with Ann. Here are some of the questions/requests:

Cam Jansen and the Mystery of Flight 54
9 + 18 / 6 (order of operations algebra homework)
dictionaries
planets
Veggietales
The Ohlone Way
war/weapons
law/civil rights/human rights
mysteries
chess pieces x3
help using the dictionary
scary stories x3
science experiments about light and rainbows
Bill Nye movies
video games
paper
princesses (looking for a series like Meg Cabot but for younger kids - gave her one of the Jewel Kingdom series to try)
"a novel" (gave him the 'guys read' YA list)
Dragon Ball Z and Hello Kitty coloring sheets (they had their own crayons)
Goosebumps
Night of the Living Dummy 2
Hanted Mask
Pokemon 2000 DVD
Mexico info (books and finally a good printout from the CIA World Factbook)
Peng Ren 26 Fa vol 1, 2, 4
book lists
Swiftly Tilting PLanet
Case of the Twin Teddy Bears
biographies of doctors
June B, 1st Grader, Jingle Bells, Batman Smells (not out until 9/27)
Invisible Island
earth
A Toad for Tuesday
CAT6 for 2nd graders
fairies
Homer Price
Space Jam
How many Friday the 13ths are there in 2006 (2: 1/13/06 and 10/13/06)
Miserable Mill
Wizard of Oz on CD
Guiness Book of Records
printing trouble
Island of the Blue Dolphins
building garden ponds (there was the perfect one about building garden ponds in 10 easy steps)
Karl Marx

lots of trying to explain to people why they really shouldn't run in the library and one fantastic picture-perfect moment when I was talking to a kid about working in the library and we started talking about the new SJ library and how it was partly a university library. She asked what a university library was and I explained to her about college/university and how you go after high school to study more and then become anything you want to be... and she asked, "Can I go?" and I just about teared up and told her that of course she can if she studies hard and keeps reading all these books, etc. Sigh. I hope she comes back (she also told her friends that I was cool -- but I think that was more to do with the coloring sheets than the science experiment books, but still.) I want to be one of those librarians that ends up making a big difference in kids lives and they end up going to college because we were there giving them the tools they needed and the encouragement they weren't getting anywhere else...