February 13, 2017

 This morning I slept in and it was wonderful. And then I went to work. I took notes today because I definitely would have forgotten everything if I hadn't.

When I got to work I pulled most of my homebound books. I came up with the list last week and several of the books had been checked out so I had to spend some time finding new ones. I was able to get a brief start on processing the books before I had to go to dinner.

The passage of time tonight was odd. I felt like I was getting a lot done but when I looked at the clock very little time had passed, which seemed weird. And then out of nowhere it was time to close. But I did get a lot of things done.

I got all of my homebound books checked out, made the bookmarks, and got all of the bookmarks cut out. All I have left to do is put the bookmarks in their respective books.

I emailed all the people signed up for our class tomorrow because the librarian teaching the class ran out of time to send the message she had written. So I copied and pasted her email to me and sent it out. I also made the handouts for the class and updated the website for class. I believe everything is now good to go.

I was finally able to update the attendance and feedback information for the Minecraft program last Thursday. It feels good to get that out of the way because it felt like I was going to forget it because last Thursday seems like forever ago.

The patron who has a history of yelling at people in Circulation and recently got upset about us not having particular financial newsletters anymore (even though we got rid of them a year ago), came in tonight with some questions. One of the daily financial periodicals has switched to a weekly issue and mentions full articles and interviews available online and he was wondering if there was a special login for that. I told him I wasn't sure but said we could look up the address he had written down to see what happened. There appeared to be a premium version of the site but it didn't block out any of the interviews or articles. The one annoying thing was that the article online had a different title than the print article, which made it hard to search for. I ended up having to Google it, but thankfully that led me to the right spot. In the end the patron was pretty happy, at least for now.

The mayor left her purse at the library this afternoon and that turned into a bit of a thing tonight. One of the librarians found it and the mayor was contacted to let her know her purse had been found. Before I got back from dinner someone from her office called to inquire how the purse could be retrieved. She called back when I was on desk and a short time later another person called. He wanted to speak to the director but it was just after five o'clock so I wasn't holding out hope but I transferred him anyway. He didn't call back so I assumed he managed to catch her but then he showed up at the library.

The people in Circulation wouldn't give him the purse without verbal confirmation from the mayor that she wanted this person to pick up her purse. Apparently she would have come herself but she was in a meeting and then going directly from that meeting to another meeting out of town. So the guy showed up, and didn't quite like what Circulation told him so they came and got me and I went down and told him the same thing. He then proceeded to put his phone on speakerphone and called the mayor, got her voicemail, and left a loud voicemail message so everyone could hear him. That was kind of obnoxious. While we waited for a response I annoyed him a little more by asking for an ID to prove who he was. I stopped short of asking for a blood sample because I didn't want to press my luck. I also asked how his day was going, other than the current situation. He said he was having a good day, other than the current situation. I didn't press it any further because he didn't seem like he was in the mood to talk. Several minutes later one of the assistants called and the guy explained the situation and told her to just hand the mayor the phone so that I could talk to her. He accidentally hung up his phone but quickly called back and got the mayor, who then told me that she wanted this person to pick up her purse. I told Circulation he was allowed to take the purse and thanked him for his patience and told him to have a good night. All things considered, I would say he handled it very well because he was clearly very annoyed by the whole situation.

At the end of the night I had a little time to take a look at the stuff I need to do for the first week of my ecourse. I think I'll probably end up doing stuff at home and not telling my boss. The only thing I accomplished tonight was recreating and reformatting the schedule they gave us because it was confusing and hard to read. It's much better now.

My coworker was a few minutes late getting to work because his car wouldn't start. It is a regular problem he has to deal with and no one has been able to figure out what is wrong. After work it wouldn't start again but he carries a charger with him now because it happens so frequently. A few minutes later he was good to go and I headed home.

When I got home I made some popcorn and watched some YouTube videos to unwind a little bit before starting this. And now I am going to record my audio journal so I can go to bed. I get to sleep in a little bit because I have to make up an hour and fifteen minutes because of the workshop we went to on Friday. I opted go in late tomorrow morning, not only because I will get an extra hour in bed, but mostly so I can get the hour over with so I won't have to worry about squeezing it in somewhere else. At least it is easier than trying to figure out my schedule after the ALA conference.