Seattle Public Library has a collection of uncataloged paperbacks for children, teens and adults which the public can check out on a trust basis. The library trusts that the patron will bring it back. Board books for children are also uncataloged. There are pros and cons to this choice.
- Pros: It's cheaper, i.e. the cost of cataloging exceeds replacement
- Sometimes there will be a popular title that you can find for a patron on the shelf because you can't place holds on uncataloged items
- Cons: Circulation statistics are less accurate
- People don't return the books
- Board books are exclusively uncataloged, so if a patron comes in looking for a specific board book title, there is no way to find it for the patron.
The morning story time is a different experience from one held in the evening. First of all there is a greater child to adult ratio because daycares, daycamps, and preschools come in. There were a lot of strollers. The kids are a little more energetic too. I give credit to the parents who left story time if their child couldn't stop running around or if they were having a fit.
Introduction: Fingerplay - I've got 10 fingers...
Song & Sign Language - The more we get together the happier we'll be
1st Story - "If a Chicken Stayed for Supper" This story includes counting to 5
2nd Story - "Fox Makes Friends" The kids liked this one because they knew fox couldn't "make" friends from twigs and vegetables. He made friends while playing!
Song & Flannel Board - "A Hunting We Will Go"
Fingerplay & Song- "5 Brown Buns"
3rd Story - "My Lucky Day"
Storytelling & Flannel Board - "Stone Soup"
4th Story & Song - "If You're Happy and You Know It" This was a fun way to jazz up an old standard.
Bibliography:
If a Chicken Stayed For Dinner by Carrie Weston
Fox Makes Friends by Adam Relf
My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza
Stone Soup
If You're Happy and You Know It by Jane Cabrera
Extras:
Dinnertime by Sue Williams
Do Like Duck Does by Judy Hindley
Nosy Rosie by Holly Keller
The Fox and the Stork by Aesop, Karl Ruhmann
Fox by Kate Banks
Red Fox at McCloskey's Farm by Brian Heinz
Hungry Hen by Richard Waring
Little Chicken and Little Fox by Brigette Sidjanski
The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Book Displays
Ballard has three units for books displays in the front of the library: one for children, teens, and adults. Remember to stock the displays with non-fiction titles as well as fiction :)
Cataloging Curious George
A curious thing has happened to Curious George; the titles have been re-issued as "Margret & H.A. Rey's Curious George's First Day of School" (etc.) The old books are "Curious George Goes to School" (etc.) The old books are cataloged by author. The new ones are cataloged by title. Because the new ones are "illustrated in the style of" H.A. Rey by Anna Grossnickle Hines. So weird! So confusing! Especially when you're trying to find what's checked in. Where do you look?
Series Sequence
A patron came in looking for the sequence of the Chronicles of Narnia books by C.S. Lewis. The thing is, their are multiple editions of the series and not all of them are in the same sequential order! The patron wanted to know the sequence of the edition that was published in the 70s. She wanted to know what #5 was because that was the title she was missing from her series. We went to Novelist where you can search by series. We didn't find her edition exactly but it was a great question! (#5 is Voyage of the Dawn Trader...)
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