One of the books showed up on another child's name. I struggled with the computer, not using the words I use at home. Finally the book was checked out to the correct child. I scanned the next child and the message came up Patron not found. But the child's name came up with all her information. I rescanned, put her name in manually, closed the window and reopened it. Nothing worked. The little girl was nearly in tears, she wanted her book. I told her to go back to class, I would fix the problem. I fixed it old school. I wrote her name down, the name of the book, and the bar code number. I left that clipped to our class bar code page and took the book back to her.
So today, problems from last week popped up. I scanned two names and the computer said they had books overdue. I knew that was wrong, I remembered checking those books in last week. With the help of another volunteer and a teacher, we found the books on the shelf. I rechecked them in, and then checked out the books they wanted this week.
Last week the teacher who every spring sets up our incubator and eggs for us, brought in a bonus. Baby rabbits in a box lined with the fur Mama rabbit had pulled out for her nest. I didn't get to take a picture last week. But today the bunnies came back.
Two bunnies visited us, while their brothers and sisters were in other classrooms.
I told Ms. H that they looked like Ying and Yang.
They are cute little bunnies. Ms. H held the black bunny as each child petted the bunny. The children were very careful using two fingers and rubbing the fur the way it grows.
The little bunnies made me forget the problems of the "lost" checked in books. They made us all smile and laugh.
