Athena’s Banquet

Today I:

• Set up and observed Storytime with my supervisor; I helped set up the room, supervised the sidewalk chalk craft for a while, and then helped put things away since the meeting room would be used tonight.


• Helped the teen librarian set up the meeting room for a program the teen and adult librarians were putting on that night.  I did not know that librarianing would involve so much moving of furniture.


• Started work on the weeding project – my supervisor sent in a request for the “Dusty Shelves” list for the call-number ranges I’ll be working on, so Central should shortly send us a list of all the books that haven’t been checked out for at least a year.  Once we’ve got that, I can start pulling books off the shelves and determining what to keep and what to get rid of.


• Staffed the reference desk for several hours.  There were the usual questions (library card numbers, looking for a three-hole punch, Summer Reading Program signups and turn ins), and then a more interesting one.  A patron wanted to know if a business name was in use, so my supervisor guided me through the process of checking the WA Department of Revenue and the WA Secretary of State websites to see if the name she was considering was already in use.  It was good that she chimed in, because I really didn’t have a clue on where to start with that.  But now I know.