Point Reyes Lighthouse (photo by Harold Davis)
year begins. The lower floor of the LMS two story will begin to get renovated this coming Monday with the removal of all the old floor coverings and the drying of the concrete slab below. Joe says the drying could take anywhere from a few days to a couple of weeks. The former copy room upstairs has been emptied and will be repurposed as a audio studio and student work module and will henceforth be officially known as The Tower. The other small high room formerly known as the apartment will be emptied next week and repurposed as another student workshop module and will be officially known as The Apartment. Access from The Apartment to what was formerly known as the roof will be restricted and the roof will be officially known as The Roof. As much as possible this modulization of student work areas with and without the inclusion of computer workstations will be replicated throughout the building. The two story itself will now be called, again, this is official, The Castle.
Moving beyond geography and mapping, the library will move to a new web-based software package for circulation, searching and cataloging called Destiny. This is a major leap forward in our ability to organize and provide access to the ten thousand books in the LMS Library and is very, very welcome.
The library will vigorously seek to freshen and improve its non-fiction in the coming year in support of the old/new approach of using longer coherent texts for research as a first choice with the internet as a secondary choice for research and a first choice for student publishing, communication and assessment (powered primarily by softwares like Moodle).
Professionally, the librarian will be working on an endorsement in middle level humanities through Antioch University Seattle. This little process should be done, with, hopefully, some help from higher powers, by December 31, 2008.
The librarian will also be teaching 3 classes next year: English 8, Publications and Computer 6. Thanks to an incredible richness of space these classes will be in the upper levels of The Castle and thus the library will always have the librarian close at hand to the Main Library and The Annex (both of which names are now official).
Very slightly farther out in the librarian's field of duty, the planning for the Adventure Education expeditions for next year has started particularly with an eye to a new destination for the large journey south; we hope to head down to Angel Island in the north part of San Francisco Bay in early 2009 for an experience that will include the great city itself (by direct ferry from the island) and the wild lands of The Point Reyes Peninsula.
