Today I skipped toddler storytime to work an evening shift with the adult librarian. He was putting on a showing of Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? aimed at adults. My job was to scurry around getting everything together beforehand and making sure things ran smoothly.
I set up the computer, speakers, and projector. It’s a really [...]
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Today I:
Observed Storytime for pre-schoolers. We did a bug theme since the Bee-Boppin’ Bugs program is happening on Monday (although apparently that is so popular it needs no additional advertising. We shall see.). Ten Little Ladybugs (which is a very cute book with little plastic ladybugs through cut-out windows), acting out being a hungry caterpillar, [...]
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Today I helped our teen librarian out with the Duct Tape Mania program. She had gotten a crate full of duct tape in different colors, rulers (some handmade from cardboard and laminated), folders with various instructions, a few examples already made, all that sort of thing. The room was already set up, but we hit [...]
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Today was our African drumming workshop and it was great! We had 130 people (not counting performers and librarians) move in and out of the room or hover around the door and glassed-in entryway. Two performers from Benin and Senegal kept the room absolutely mesmerized, with kids banging on drums and rattling the shakers brought [...]
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My Storytime project was the one I looked forward to most and least. On the one hand, it was something I’d done as a teen working with the “Readings is Fundamental” program in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (my first paying library job!). I was responsible for working with the youngest children (babies to seven, [...]
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This was one of the most technically challenging projects I worked on this summer. My supervisor wanted to have a booklist of historical fiction works created, since there were several schools in our service area that did projects related to historical fiction, especially global historical fiction, and it was a constant challenge to keep track [...]
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I was able to spend a substantial amount of time this summer working on the reference desk. Since North East is a branch library, all of the librarians take it in turns to staff the desk and help patrons of all ages. While we spent a lot of time dealing with the summer reading program [...]
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North East Library is preparing for a substantial remodeling project to take place between August 23 and approximately the first week of October. Despite substantial renovations undertaken during the Libraries for All program, the branch requires additional work to consolidate the nonfiction collection (currently divided between the east and west sides of the library with [...]
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One of the first projects I completed this summer was the book order for our uncataloged paperback collection. My supervisor was going to be on vacation for the last two weeks in June, and she left this as a project that I would be able to work on in her absence.
The complete list of [...]
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Today I:
Observed the toddler storytime (again, African stories in preparation for the African Drumming Workshop on Friday)
Staffed the reference desk – I took a phone reference question on whether we carried the “Consumer’s Checkbook”, but I took too long to find it (I have a lot of trouble finding stuff in our periodical collection) and [...]
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