Friday, January 7, 2011

Getting to know our library

We've been to our library a couple of times now. The set-up is okay. On the last visit the kids discovered the computers and decided to play the educational games.

I think that one of the reasons they noticed the computers this time was because there were a couple of homeschool kids playing games on them. The first time we visited the library it was Christmas break. Now that the kids are back in school it's much easier to spot homeschoolers in public. During this visit we ran into two homeschool families at this library. I figured we would since there is a pretty high number of homeschoolers registered in this city. I read online before we moved that the estimated number was over 8000 homeschool families were registered with the Edmonton school boards.

One thing that I found cool about this library was the book scanning system. You place the books in a pile on this special desk and the computer recognizes them. It misses some sometimes so I put no more than five books at a time. Also, when you drop books off you have to put one book in the slot at a time and it looks like they are automatically signed back in to the library as they drop in the slot.

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