Today my supervisor took me along to work at another branch that needed coverage that night. While it was only a mile or two away from our home branch, it serves a very different population – fewer young families and more elderly people or people with limited access to computers or other resources. We had [...]
Read the rest of Today I (June 30)
Today I:
Processed new children’s books
Staffed the reference desk with my supervisor, spending some time catching her up on what I’ve been doing while she was on vacation.
Helped a patron with her print jobs.
It was a pretty slow day.
Read the rest of Today I: (June 29)
Tonight we had the long-awaited Twilight showing. I’d been working with the teen librarian a fair bit on getting ready for it – folding booklists, getting stuff together for the room, planning what she needed to have ready, etc. We had to do a fair bit to get the room ready – rearranging furniture (she [...]
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Today I:
Processed board books (checked against invoice, stickered)
Straightened children’s room
Shelved readers (we were WIPED OUT)
Worked on book order.
Things I’ve been thinking about as I’ve been working on the book order:
I have a strong tendency to pick books with female protagonists and more stereotypically female activities. I actually went through, book by book, and put hashmarks [...]
Read the rest of Today I (June 25)
Today I:
Staffed the reference desk
Looked for plastic sign displays for the teen librarian
Worked on the historical fiction reading list (very little)
Read the rest of Today I (June 24)
Today I:
Worked on the book order for uncataloged paperbacks
Staffed the reference desk (the librarians were VERY happy to see me, since one of the four was on vacation and another was out sick)
Folded “I loved Twilight! ....Now what?” brochures for the teen librarian
Organized the children’s brochures in the cupboard behind the information desk – they’d [...]
Read the rest of Today I (June 23)
Today I:
Made Summer Reading Club completion packets (set of 10 stickers, entry form for Breakfast of Champions, Wall of Fame slip, 10 More Books form)
Shadowed on the reference desk for most of the day as other people cycled in and out
Tidied children’s room (oy, the tidying that was needed. We’ve been hugely busy.)
Politely asked a [...]
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Today I
Processed board books (checked invoices against shipped contents, added stickers)
Processed new children’s books (fairly small shipment)
Sorted a cart of children’s books for shelvers
Handled reference questions
I got some fairly interesting reference questions today, actually.
A kid came up asking for the “Jack and Annie” series, and I had to probe quite a bit to figure out [...]
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