Been a While

Wow! I am terrible at blogging! Glad I don't have a blog at work.

Even though I have not been blogging, I have been working on the project. So far I am through the letter E and hope to get through G today since I have the day off.

My process is to locate leveled books online, mostly from Scholastic's website as well as a school website I found. I didn't want to just copy other information though, so I am working to create a list solely off of titles. Once I locate a title that sounds like something kids would actually want to read I look it up on my library's catalog. It need to be a book we own of course! If we do own it I type it up on my master list with the description provided in the summary section of our website.

This is taking forever, but I want to make sure the list is accurate and contains quality books. That said, I am also looking at every book to make sure it is truly in the library and matches the others in terms of level. Some leveled books are not really the same level that they claim to be.

Unfortunately I will probably only get to the end of level L when this project is due. I think it is an excellent start though and certainly helpful to parents. Our elementary schools are grades K-2, so if I can get through level N (I'll continue working even after this is due) then I will be happy to at least have a comprehensive list for those school kids.

I also want to make the list attractive with a graphic of the book for easier searching in the library as well as the location of each book next to the title so parents do not have to do too much searching on their own. Our patrons seem to be a rush quite often!