My bright idea for shelving books at the end of the year, and it was something the 5th graders could help me with. 🙂

One of the funniest and strangest things that happened this year was the hiding of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. Up to 20 at a time. We found them everywhere. Hidden in the non-fiction section behind other books. Hidden in tubs that contained class sets. Hidden with the audiobooks. We aren’t exactly sure who was hiding them but we have our suspicions, and we don’t exactly know why they were hiding them but it did make for some comic relief.

 This was the view on Wednesday 2 days before the library was to close it’s doors for the year. The line was out the door which was pretty much the norm all year long. I can only imagine what it will look like next year.

Congratulations to Arturo Tovar for being this years first place winner of our ‘Many Important Hats Contest”. How creative is this hat? It’s like Cat in the Hat met Wicked met a superhero! Very cool.

One of the best parts of being a librarian is when you have former students come back to visit and all they can talk about is books. Priscilla and her mother came to visit one day before school had started this year, and her mother mentioned that Priscilla had finished all the summer reads I had given her in one week. So of course, I couldn’t let such an avid reader go without more books. One of Priscilla’s best qualities is that she pays it forward. Not only does she read to the younger children at her church and teaches them how to read, but she also passes the books on to her friends. She is a role model and librarian’s dream come true.