#elementary library

It’s inventory week in the library! That means I scan each book in the collection to, as I explain to my kids, “tuck it in for the summer.” Basically, I need to make sure everything’s accounted for by the end of the school year and know if anything’s gone missing.

My predecessor inventoried every year, but I’m learning she wasn’t super big on weeding out the collection unless she absolutely had to. I started inventory yesterday and I already have a small mountain of books to remove from the collection behind my desk.

Out of everything I’ve found, here are my favorites:

• A Scholastic book fair VHS from the 90′s that states on the box that it was supposed to be returned to Scholastic after the book fair.
• To Hell With Dying by Alice Walker– She’s an incredibly famous author, yes. But what is this doing in an elementary library?
• One particularly politically incorrect fairy tale book from the
  1950′s.

Tune back in on Monday for more weeding gems.