Oct 23 '09 - 2.5 hours

With my Marquette student teacher fully in charge of my morning classes, I have the flexibility to start working in the LMC for more than 30 minutes stints. Today, from 8-10:30 am, Diane, Joyce, and I unpacked and organized a HUGE Baker & Taylor order. Diane showed me her consideration file (she writes things on index cards and then records the barcode on the card for later use) and talked me through how she gathers titles for a big order like this one. I was pleasantly surprised to see that two titles I had told Diane about (coincidentally, the works of two authors I listened to at the Wisc Book Festival) were in the order. She has a formal consideration process and, apparently, and informal one where she keeps an ear open to teachers' conversations and notes their interests.

We unpacked the giant order and went through the invoice to verify the contents. All but two titles were there, which seems to me to be a great fill rate. Diane explained that she has a blanket purchase order with Baker & Taylor so she continually orders things thoughout the year on a rolling basis. We checked items off the invoice and I recorded the ready processed bar code on the index card from the consideration file. This took a really long time and I'm sure part of it was that I (the newbie) was helping. I'm slow.