Today I:
Observed preschool storytime. We have an African drumming program coming up on the 17th, so my supervisor chose stories and songs about Africa as a tie-in. We sang the Hippo-Pokey (“You splash right in the mud and you squish your foot around…that’s how a hippo cools off.”), went on a lion hunt, and made [...]
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I spent this evening with the branch manager working at a neighborhood movie night. I wasn’t sure what to expect going in (I love those days when I show up to work not merely unprepared for but in fact completely ignorant of what’s about to happen), but it turned out to be an event hosted [...]
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Today I:
Helped with pre-school storytime and tested out a vegetable stamp craft. We had some donated small rectangles of matte board, a bag of vegetables (carrots and cauliflower and brocolli), and some ink pads, so my supervisor had me try making vegetable stamps by slicing them in half and inking them. It worked pretty well, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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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:
Staffed the reference desk
Looked for plastic sign displays for the teen librarian
Worked on the historical fiction reading list (very little)
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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 [...]
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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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