Okay... Time for You to Admit it... Were You Ever... ?

... A Library Monitor at School?

LOL. I had forgotten, but I did indeed help out at the school library. The lady I had as my grade 2 teacher became the librarian when we finally got one at primary school. She was on of my two favourite teachers. I used to love helping out in the library.

I was a "milk monitor" in 1955/56/57.
I never understood why they left the milk out until almost midday here in Aussie in summer.
I then had to wash out all those 1/3 pint bottles. Many not drunk.

Another envious job (by the males at least) was INK MONITOR

We mixed the dry ink powder, with water, to make ink :-)

If you wern't "blue" up until your arm pits you were not really trying.

Guido.

yes I was still a milk monitor in 1974 when I think the last milk bottles were used. I can still remember having to drink semi-warm milk in the sun....Allan

Was I ever! I did not do PE because of physical disability and spent those periods in the library. This was - initially - before the Commonwealth grants for libraries began. Blackburn High had a particularly enlightened principal who gave the librarians generous sums for adding to the stock. I used to visit other schools for debating contests, and the libraries in many of them were pathetic.

As the librarians' pet I was allowed to rummage through the boxes of new books, progressing to actually accessioning them. I was also, if I say it myself, one of the fastest catalogue card sorters in existence.

Yes, they thought I should become a librarian. I didn't, but ended up married to one.

I admit it too... I was a library monitor... I even won a school prize for 'Service to the Library'. I always enjoyed putting things away on the shelves after they had been returned. I used to know the Dewey system like the back of my hand!

No....but I did receive a certificate for reading the most books in the year out of anyone in the whole school ;)

I was an ink monitor which really dates me. It was my job in the mornings to fill the inkwells in the school desks in my classroom.

Nope, my high school librarian used to pretty much throw me out when I walked in the door because she knew I was going to do something loud or inappropriate. Funnily enough, I then spent nearly 15 years working in libraries. As much as I enjoyed it, it was never something I'd planned on

I have been all of these things. Do I ever remember those one-third pint bottles out in the sun, and how they stank! >5 dajashby: I was a library monitor partly to get out of sport, but I liked working in the library anyway. The school library had a decent collection of Biggles books and I read all of them. Now when I see them second-hand I pick them up to check the prices and smile a bit, but I've never bought one.

Oh my gosh, yes! Best school job ever! I was determined that I was going to read every book in our school library so was happy to be in there at lunchtimes, supposedly helping but actually reading most of the time.

I also admit to making library cards, pockets for my books and borrower lists for my books at home. And encouraging (well, forcing!) my younger siblings to play libraries on a regular basis.

I don’t recall there being book monitor at any school I was at. I loved being blackboard monitor. I used to like cleaning the blackboard and also going outside and banging the blackboard eraser with a ruler to get the chalk out.

I used to be the flower monitor a fair bit. My mother grew beautiful roses. She had about 30 bushes so the teachers often selected me for this job.

Aaand I've just realised belatedly and shamefacedly that I've not put up a New Year greeting to my fellow Australian LT-ers. So best wishes to you all for 2019 and may your year be filled with light, love, good times and great reading.