August 22, 2016

 Despite my room being darker than usual this morning, thanks to the new curtains, I did eventually get out of bed. I would have preferred to just spend the morning laying in the dark listening to music. I'll have to do that some morning.

Most of my day at work was spent working on stuff for upcoming tech classes. I'm not teaching the first one but I need to come up with the outline and handouts and all that. Part of that process today involved creating a Gmail account for the tech classes so I can create forms for the classes. The first class is about our library resources and after giving a brief overview of all of them I want the people in the class to use a form to check all the resources they are interested in learning more about. The librarian teaching the class will then be able to go through the top five or so and give a more in-depth explanation and show off what they can do. I also want to use a form for the evaluations at the end of the class. This will save paper but I will also have all the data in one spot, not in a stack of papers that I then have to go through to gather the information. Hopefully we don't end up with a class filled with people that aren't great with the computer.

The chat had been quiet all day until about three minutes before I was supposed to go to lunch. That is when I got a question about an interlibrary loan that led me on a hunt that took far too long. The patron wanted a textbook which I could only find out of state from university libraries, which meant they probably wouldn't send it and even if they did they would charge a lot of money and it could take at least four weeks to process the request. In my search I found the textbook on Amazon, where it could be rented for less than thirty bucks. I brought this to the patron's attention and they decided to go with that option. Wish I would have started with that option.

Tonight I didn't really accomplish much. I paid for my vehicle registration, I read a little bit, I watched a movie and YouTube videos, and I clicked around the internet. An uneventful evening. Now I'm thinking about going to bed because I need to go to bed so I can wake up early and go to work. Hooray. I wish weekends were longer.