Back to college!

Last Tuesday, I went back to work after a 7 week holiday (I only work during term time).
It is fair to say that I needed to be eased back in gently! It was good to catch up with my colleagues and see and hear about the changes in our library over the summer.

One of the main changes has been an extension of our library (into some of the staff room) as we will have a larger intake of students this year. The extension looks good but I only hope that we will be able to control the noise level in the library. The whole library is meant to be silent study. Is this realistic? We will see.
We also have one more person in the team for four days a week so that should help us.

From Wednesday to Friday our team were helping the college with enrollement. Our sixth form is very popular and entry requirements are quite stringent. Unfortunately this meant that a lot of young people coming in to enrol were very disappointed as they hadn't met the required grades. As I spent some time helping the Careers team, it was good to see the support that was on offer.

We predicted that the loss of the EMA this year would impact on numbers enrolling, but by Friday afternoon the majority of our courses were full.

I am looking forward to one more student free week where I can make progress with preparing inductions and cataloguing books.