Tuesday I worked all day in the Children's Department- cut out craft pieces to make a spider hat to go with the Anasazi story later this month, started trying to determine the location of a list of Juv NF books- on the shelf or in storage (basement); by necessity did quite a bit of shelf reading as I went through the list, "manned" the SRC table- signed up new participants as well as gave out prizes. Children's is a busy place- especially 10-12 (story time 10:30) and after 4:00 - activites every day. It's a LOT of work to get everything set up - stories, demos, crafts, etc. And you must be creative - which I am not! They are also having a Scholastic Book Fair a week from Monday. Now that's something that I have experience in! Will get to train the staff on the registers and help set up. YAY!
Also helped pull books for Outreach tomorrow - 25 assorted large print(mix of romance and mystery), 10 mystery, 10 general fiction. I had to make a concerted effort not to just pull books that I liked.
Pretty much just shadowing several people this week. Today (Wed.) I went on outreach to two different nursing homes - independent living in the morning and assisted living in the afternoon. Residents request books plus we bring an assortment of others for them to choose from - usually newer copyrights. (books have a "new" sticker on the spine) The indepedent living home had a resident who checked in the books being returned; she has lived there 22 years! One of the ladies in the afternoon was 93 and she had a huge stack of books:-) I would love this job because you get to know the patrons more intimately. The only thing I wouldn't like is backing the library van down the steep narrow driveway into the single bay garage - brick wall on one side and cement posts on the other! Or when a patron died......
I thought I would spend the last couple of hours of the day on the computer deleting more weeded titles from the catalog, but I was having "authorization" issues. I had already had to ask my supervisor for the password and didn't want to bother her again as I knew she was working on a report, so I decided to go down to Children's and continue working on the Juv NF project instead. Got though most of the list. Guess at some point I'll be checking the basement shelves for the copies I didn't find.
Meant to mention that NONE of the patrons at either nursing home were men!!
ReplyDeleteLast paragraph - since neither project was more important than the other and I knew my supervisor was on a deadline to complete her report, I made an "executive" decision to continue determining the location of the Juv NF books.
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