Processing

I was able to process several items in the high school media center. Destiny makes this process quite easy. Through the Destiny program, you "Add a Title" by typing in basic book information (title, author, publication, etc.). We then searched for a copy of the book to see if it was located in other Hall County media centers. For The Kite Runner, we added to a book that a teacher had donated to class sets. We entered the price and increased it by .50 to cover the costs of the bar code labels and jacket cover. The funding source for all of our books was from donations. We also added a new book that was not in the media center. This book was titled, FireFly Lane. My media specialist recommend that we locate an external result that had a summary attached. After this, we added the book, Dear John. My Sister's Keeper was a duplicate as well, and a student had already placed a hold on this title so as soon as we entered it, we released the hold so that the student could check it out. We added Happy Quilting from scratch and placed a summary so that patrons will find useful information. Afterwards, we printed barcodes and my media specialist showed me how to cover the paperback with special vinyl covering to help protect the book covers.
Overall, the cataloging process was not too difficult. It was interesting to process the books, and see what procedures took place in order to get the books on the shelves.