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 = Objective 2:  __Cataloging Educational Resources/ Equipment __ =  //I will be responsible for cataloging, tagging and organizing multiple pieces of educational resources for faculty use in the classrooms FEAP: 8, 9, 12//

A major chore for most Media Specialist is to mark and catalog all new items that are to be available for checkout from the library. Most people think that just the books need to have a bar code slapped on them and then it can be put onto a shelf for check out. Not so as I learned from my days in the Media Center. Books are not the only items that need barcodes. Classroom materials, manipulatives, and even textbooks are now being cataloged in order to maintain an inventory database for school records.

Recently, Neptune Elementary's Resource Specialist divided up various math manipulative kits in order to put them in the library so that teachers could check them out as additional classroom resouces as needed. The items were given to the Media Specialist in several large bags and asked to be made available to everyone. A perfect job for me to organize and explore the world of locating, organizing, and tagging equipment for check out. I first had to organize the items to figure out what was given. I then transferred the various manipulatives into various library bags so that when they were placed into the resource room, they could be hung up and easily displayed for teachers to see. I then had to search within the current catalog database, Destiny, searching for a similar entry from other schools so that I could create a list to send to the district office for approval (due to the fact that there were no bar codes and/ or ISBN numbers to match up, district office personnel approve for schools to use the appropriate descriptions to be used; grouping similiar item together). I also placed the barcode on the bags, attaching the extra sticker onto the list I was creating so that when district approved the descriptions, they could enter the barcode number as well.

Once my list was done, I made sure that it met my Media Specialists approval and made sure to explain to her how I connected the various manipulatives to their on-line connections. The list was sent to district and as of my last day, nothing had been entered.