Working in the yard today meant 2 and a half hours of pulling & cutting weeds. Ever had spearmint gum? The spearmint plant can be a nice unusual plant in your garden---until the spring hits, then it spreads EVERYWHERE! I pulled and cut and pulled and cut the spearmint plants to make room for the plants the gardener wanted to show. She had given up on trying to control it, so it was taking over the garden.
The library learning commons is sort of like this garden. While there are some really good titles in the collection, there are some books in print which say that ONE day we will go to the moon---that is not an up-to-date book. On the other hand there are some books that are full of good and useful information.
Try to find one outdated book, and then a book full of good, useful information about the same subject. It will surprise you what has changed since the writing of the out-of-date one!
....and for the internet work. I spent a couple of hours working on the web site which is designed to give parents who want to help in the library some ideas about how they can help. It sure would be a nice problem to have more help than the library learning commons has work.
That's my day for today.
I hope yours was good for you!
