Student Library Proctor Retreat

Coach likes laps.  He has fallen into Christina's lap and has his butt sticking up in the air. Christina is laughing.

On Saturday we had our student library proctor retreat where the idea is to train the proctors and also to bond as a group.  We also want to get all of their photos for the bulletin board.  We were going to take their photos with Coach.  We decided to take our photos as well this year!

Coach and Jan are sitting side by side.  Jan is peering over his head and has her arms around him.

 Jan and Christina work in the library with me.  Jan is the library assistant and runs the library proctor program and keeps the library running smoothly and she took most of these photos.  Christina is our collections development librarian and also helps with middle or upper division classes depending on where the need is.  They are both super to work with and Coach loves them.

This is a long distance shot of Coach and one of our student library proctors having a quiet moment. She is sitting and he is getting his ears rubbed.

 We had a full day planned of different activities such as designing t-shirts with our theme (literature is a treasure) and games like musical chairs.

Coach has decided that enough is enough and he should take a break under the atlas stand.

After a few of the games, Coach decided he needed a rest and he found that the atlas stand was a good place to hang out under.  He is very good at deciding when he is tired and walking away from people and lying down either under my desk or on his bed, essentially saying "I'm done!"

Close up photo of Coach under the atlas stand.

But, he's so cute, no one ever gets offended.

Annie is reading a book to Coach who is looking up at her.

 The kids all thought he was the best and even tried to read to him for a cute photo op.

All of the student library proctors got their photos with Coach.  Here is one with Alex and Coach.

Overall, the retreat was a great success.  There was much eating, bonding and game playing.  I think they may have learned how to shelve books.  I'm not sure....

We'll teach them that again!