Today was another fast day. I spent a decent chunk of my day
weeding. I don't know how many books I looked at but I ended up
weeding over one hundred books, moving out of the how-to paint books
and into the books about painters. We have a lot of painting books.
They are often big and heavy, which is a pretty good reason for why
they don't check out as often as they should. The instructional
books are often thin, which means a lot get crammed onto the shelves,
making everything look cluttered and overwhelming. The shelves are
slowly starting to look better.
I wasn't on desk that much today and when I was I kept getting
sidetracked by other things, like helping patrons, so I didn't get
through scanning all my weeded books until six o'clock, which is when
I got off from work. I filled up three of the small carts with books
so it's not surprising. It was also mildly exhausting because of how
big all the books were. I feel a little bit better about not getting
a chance to weed in quite awhile. I still have more to go but I'm
closer to getting done.
This afternoon we had our first tech drop-in and I was a little
nervous that no one would show up. That ended up being unnecessary
because we had three people that were there for the first hour and a
half and a fourth person showed up for the last half hour. And I
think it went really well. I spent most of my time helping one of
the ladies with her laptop. Most of her problems ended up being
related to her laptop being in tablet mode, which took me forever to
stumble across. That ended up fixing her problem with things opening
in side-by-side view and her calculator being humongous. I feel like
that was an issue on one of the computers in the lab during our
Windows 10 class. For the longest time I thought she had a version
of Windows 8 because everything looked and behaved so weirdly. It
was like night and day turning tablet mode off. The other librarian
and the volunteer helped the other patrons with their phones and
Facebook. I think at the beginning the patrons were all uncertain
about what to expect from the drop-in thing, and we were too, but
they all walked away really happy. Which made me happy because I
wasn't sure how it was all going to work out. Hopefully next month
goes just as well.
And that was pretty much my day. Weeding and helping patrons as the
tech drop-in. I also got my first business cards today. That was
kind of cool. I've never had a business card before and I've always
wanted one. They aren't as cool I would have made but we're still
kind of uptight at the library when it comes to certain things. A
second example being the small picture of a puppy I put next to the
tax forms. It apparently wasn't professional. I don't understand
that, and I think the patrons probably liked it, but you've got to
pick your battles.
Tonight I had the last of the homemade pizza. This was exciting
because I had completely forgotten I had pizza left. I had planned
on having a fake chicken sandwich. I was also going to have rice but
both boxes I had required twenty-five minutes to cook. That seems a
bit crazy but I'll end up making them at some point, just not
tonight.
After dinner I watched YouTube videos and looked through a couple art
books I brought home from my weeding today. I also finished reading
In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang. I liked it. It
definitely simplified the issue of gold farming in video games and
was very idealistic, but it's a graphic novel for teens and had a
positive message, so I'm not going to judge it too harshly. I also
liked the art style.
My sister stopped by with the treats she made for the birthday thing
we're doing tomorrow at work. They are a peanut butter thing with a
thick layer of chocolate on top. And they are really good. Not
surprising.
Now I'm going to stop typing this so I can record my audio journal.
And then go to bed because sleep is nice.
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