January 24, 2017

 This morning I slept in a little bit, got ready, and then watched YouTube videos for awhile before eating lunch and going to work.

My first project when I got to work was updating the class website. Turns out the class was this afternoon, not Thursday, so I spent two hours adding links and resources to the page. It took that long because I needed to come up with what I wanted on the page and then spent most of the time trying to format it. The formatting is kind of a pain in the butt. I'm not a fan. I also made a half-sheet handout. It was a productive two hours.

And then we had the class. Five people showed up and they all enjoyed the class. I ended up talking about one of our digital resources, which I hadn't planned on, but I basically gave a very broad overview and compared and contrasted it to the first resource we talked about. It went alright. Before we could get everyone logged into the first website I had to go out and unblock, update, and reset passwords for three of the patrons so they could actually use the website. But that was the only hiccup.

Before the class my boss volunteered me to make a sign for the small bookstore in the library. I was okay with that because I like being creative. When I got back from the class I found out my boss had volunteered me for something else. It involves our room scheduling software. I was volunteered to be in charge of training the staff. This apparently instantly pissed off one of the IT people because I guess she wanted to do the training. My boss told me that for the past fifteen years every time someone wanted to be trained on something, like the room scheduling software, she would always say that wasn't part of her job. But now when I have been put in charge of it, she has become very interested. So that will create a fun tension.

I guess one of the annoyances that IT has about the software is that the Children's department tends to use the Event scheduling option when reserving a room for a meeting instead of using the Room Reserve option. Rather than find out why they're doing this, or even just talking to them about it at all, they just sit and stew about it. At least that is what I was told. So my first task was to find out why the Children's department favors the one option over the other and convey that information to the IT people and hopefully find some common ground. I started by emailing the lady I kind of worked with for the tutorial videos a little while ago and the teen librarian. I am hoping they can point me in the right direction.

Tonight I made the sign for the little bookstore, came up with a list of books for one of my displays, went and grabbed those books, and put them on my display. I also watched a hundred usability videos because I hadn't done that at all this month. But now I'm caught up.

When I got home I recorded my audio journal while playing Crashlands and then continued watching the third season of The Librarians. I'm nearly done with the season and that makes me a little sad. I might have to restart from the first season again. It is such a good show.

Now I'm going to call it a day because it is late and I have to open in the morning. Not a fan of having to close at 9:00PM and then be back at 8:00AM the next morning. Such is life. At least I will get off at 5:00PM tomorrow.