It is getting harder and harder to write something new for these journal installments. I am going to my PFE twice a week for 14 hours. During this time, I take shelf after shelf down onto a cart then read and evaluate each item. It is amazing each day but hard to write creatively about the experience. This week I figured out I truly only have two more days to review the collection. Next week, Week 6 will be my last full week. I hope to review 8 shelves. This will leave me with 8 shelves untouched. The middle shelving unit threw my calculations off. I am a bit disappointed with this lack of completion. During Week 7, which I will work only one day for a few hours, I will clean up my Excel spreadsheets. This will include converting the Excel sheets into shared Google Sheets which will be shared with the staff by email. Not sure if I will create more than one Google sheet document or one for each topic category.

Again, I started with the return cart. Out of the 97 items on the cart, I had already reviewed 26. This took me 1.5 hours. I finished a cart about 30 minutes before leaving time and did not want to start another shelf. During the last bit of time. I reviewed my Excel sheets, correcting Tag Type names, sorting each sheet, and fixing Tags by re-evaluating highlighted items. This did get a bit confusing because I was working from the sort sheets then correcting the main list, making sure my highlighted items which were marked red, were changed back to black. I was surprised that there were so few highlighted items, about 20. I am disappointed that I will not have time to completely evaluate the entire collection during this PFE. The weather predicted snow. This seemed to keep patrons at home tonight. Not many reference questions during this shift. I did help a young patron with some Early Reader Chapter books. She took the whole set of 4 books plus a few other items. As it stands now, with only one full PFE day left, I have created 7 sheets titled Other with 121 items, Figurative Language with 289 items, Word Families with 189 items, Letter Sounds with 100 items, Cumulative Story 33 items, Wordless with 88 items, and Not Picture Books with 3 items.

I have opened the project in Google spreadsheets, and it transferred nicely. Now I just need to figure out if I will keep all the columns within the sheet. I think about deleting the columns titled, Internal Notes, Messages, and Descriptions. This edit will make the project's information more focused on the wants and needs of the staff and patrons.

This project was not completed by the time the PFE hours ended. The collection was reviewed up to the letter S. A shared Google spreadsheet was created for the Cranston Public Library Children’s librarians and staff to use. This Google spreadsheet does identify all required criteria for this PFE project up to authors name beginning with R, but the entire picture book collection was not reviewed or included in this spreadsheet, most S to Z authors were not included. Below are my goals with the outcomes.

Goal 1 Foundations:

1.4 Graduate explains the principles involved in the organization of recorded knowledge and information.

Outcome:

1. Graduate created a usable report of the picture book collection by using the picture book collection index number then sorting this report by call number, barcode, title, author, internal note, message, and description.

1.5 Graduate explain the national and international standards of cataloging, metadata, indexing, and classification systems for organizing recorded knowledge and information for retrieval.

Outcome:

1. Graduate created a shared Google spreadsheet outlining the teaching and literacy topics defined within the learning contract. This spreadsheet will allow the librarians and staff a quick and easy access to tagged resources on popular teaching and literacy topics when needed or requested by patrons.

Goal 2 Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning:

2.1 Graduate locate, retrieve, evaluate, and synthesize information from diverse sources to meet information needs.

Outcome:

1. While the graduate reviewed the picture book collection, they identified and tagged items that meet the criteria of learning contract. Once tagged the items were sorted into categories within a Google spreadsheet.

2. Through a Google Questionnaire the children librarians gave me insight on how they would like the final project to be accessed by them and patrons.

2.2 Graduate explain and apply the concepts, principles, theories, philosophies, and techniques of diverse individuals and groups with access to relevant and accurate recorded knowledge and information.

Outcome:

1. The teaching and literacy topics identified within this project were chosen from a Google Questionnaire given out to the children librarians asking about teaching and literacy topics requested by patrons.

2. By surveying the staff asking about their interactions with patrons during their time at the library, I gained knowledge and insight of which topics that are requested by a patron or needed by them to be included within the final project.