Raiding the library

[Embassy]

Anyone else raid their library in preparation for the upcoming school year? I put together a lot of my kid's curriculum and I'm picking and choosing what books to use this coming school year. Here is my current situation:

 

My card:

23 items checked out

132 hold requests (46 ready for pickup)

 

Husband's card:

 

30 items checked out

182 hold requests (59 ready for pickup)

 

Guess where I'm going tomorrow :D

Edited May 13, 2010 by Wehomeschool

[fairytalemama]

HOLY COW! And I thought I was bad! I think we usually have like 50 something items checked out and like 20 requested.

 

What I've found is that usually if I plan a week ahead for what I want (as long as it's not like a new release movie or book) I can usually put in the request and have it the following week at our library so I don't need quite as huge of a request list.

[danybug]

That sounds like our regular weekly tally ;)

 

I often feel bad when we check out at our library, because we always cause a backup and they have to call out another checkout person. But hey we are putting everything to good use.

[SilverMoon]

I'm jealous. We're only allowed five holds at a time. :001_unsure: They've never told us we've checked out too much though, and our tally goes over 100 often.

[mcconnellboys]

My cards looked like that when my youngest was a little guy. When you're using picture books, you go through a ton of them very quickly! If I had multiple littles, I'm sure I would have used even more. It won't be like that forever. Glad your library is supportive. There are some at mine who act as if it's a big imposition for patrons to actually check out materials.....

[Embassy]

My cards looked like that when my youngest was a little guy. When you're using picture books, you go through a ton of them very quickly! If I had multiple littles, I'm sure I would have used even more. It won't be like that forever. Glad your library is supportive. There are some at mine who act as if it's a big imposition for patrons to actually check out materials.....

 

Yes, quite a few picture books. My younger son's attention span for chapter books is limited so we will be using lots of books with pictures.

[Guest]

I'm jealous. We're only allowed five holds at a time. :001_unsure: They've never told us we've checked out too much though, and our tally goes over 100 often.

 

Yeah, our library recently limited our holds to 10. At least we have 2 cards, but I still have to watch it. We also have a checkout limit of 50.