I walked past the heavily-used manga section this morning, and it looked like one of the shelves threw up on the floor–there were books everywhere. When I had a chance to go back later and fix it, everything looked fine! I think it was my Library Guild at work.

This after-school club started last week. I had 30 students show up for the first meeting, and 34 for the second! I’ve given out over 110 permission slips so far and collected 48, with more coming in. I think I’m going to have to cap the number of students. What an incredible response! They’ve all been really well-behaved, busily working on book displays and posters for our upcoming book fair.

This summer for my class on Virtual Environments and Games in Education I read Jane McGonigle’s book Reality Is Broken, and it gave me the idea to use Chore Wars so the Guild members can get XP (experience points) for what they do. So far it’s been a fair amount of work to set up, but I think things will be easier as the kids get into a routine. Huzzah for the Library Guild!