I’m new but I’m old.

new AND old

AND OR NOT

Boolean

(Nesting)

Truncate*

Wild Card

Field Code

Field Glasses

Outlook

Checkout

INRE

UND

STDI

ILL

PACMAN

Paper Jam

Patron Log

In/Out

New/Old

 

New vocabulary. Sort. The most relevant items are not necessarily at the top.

 

Terms are couched. Couched in their own terms – nested, truncated, and wild.

 

New at the library. New at libguides. New at libcoaching. Old at libcoaxing.

 

Bean Bag Toss: Is Middle School too early to start preparing for college?

Library Club: Bracelets. Banned Books. Book Discussions. Bags.

 

Frances, Mandi, Heidi, Matt, Ashlee, Jesse, Kesla, Denise, Roger, Cheltsi, Gretchen,  Kara, Bailey, Molly, Kayla, Brittany, Jennifer, Julien, Marcia, Alyssa, Ed, Sue, Lora, etc. Many new faces. Smiling, serious, busy.

 

Driving home “roller coaster road.” Wall of thwarted-but-surviving corn on the right. Almost-Blue Moon up high on the left. A Waxing Gibbous Moon. Not a New Moon. An Old Moon.

 

Ann Tobin

New Evening Supervisor

IU East Campus Library

08/30/2012