One frustration after another!

It's a long time since I last posted, more than 2 weeks. Our 3 week, extremely short half-term is over and we are now on holiday again for Chinese New Year. It was quite a hard 3 weeks, students were very unsettled and several either did not come back at all or left early for the next vacation.

As well as launching the new website and starting my new Library monitor activity, I published the Library skills programme that I want to start after Chinese New Year. It is very clear that the students need help in understanding how the Library is organised, some basics on book selection criteria, introduction to Non-fiction and the Dewey Decimal System and some research skills.

I have also been preparing for Book Week in the middle of March and have quite a few activities lined up. Nury Vittachi has confirmed that he is available to visit - I just need definite confirmation from the school that they cash will be available to pay for his time, accommodation etc. This is an area of concern as most of my purchase orders have not been placed and seem to have disappeared somewhere in purchasing. The purchasing asst I have been working left just before Chinese New Year so I am not quite sure what will happen now.

The Oliver system is installed but still not running properly. From the feedback received from Softlink Australia, this seems to be caused by technical problems at the school's end. We have tried to get these resolved but without much success at the moment. It is highly frustrating as we need to have functioning OPACs to stand any chance to teaching our students how to search and research effectively.

Seems like many of the items on the "To Do" list just seem to sit there at the moment with no resolution. Hopefully a number of these issue will be resolved when we return to school after the break.