March 30, 2017

This morning I slept in, woke up before my alarm went off, and stayed in bed until it did. Not a bad morning.

I went to work at noon, had a walkthrough, and then basically had three hours free. I went upstairs to the cubicle pretty much spent the whole time watching lectures from my e-course and taking notes. I also discovered I couldn't get into the recording of the webinar from yesterday. I sent the support person an email and he got back to me pretty quickly, acknowledging there had been some technical difficulties but they had got it sorted and I was able to get into the recording. There isn't an option to download it so I'm going to have to record it myself at some point, probably this weekend.

At 3:30PM I had a short meeting about weeding the large print books. We're going to start that next week. Exciting stuff. Now that all of the non-fiction has been shifted, two of the open shelves have been removed and I believe the third is going down tomorrow. It has opened up so much space. So much room for activities.

Right before leaving for dinner I walked in on the middle of an angry patron at the desk. My introduction was her pointing at me and saying “What about him, he looks like he knows something.” She was wanting a list with pictures of everyone incarcerated in a particular county. The librarian helping her wasn't having any luck finding anything and the patron was getting really annoyed. I started offering ideas and then the patron basically started asking if there was anyone who knew what they were doing. At that point the librarian helping her turned around to the other two librarians and the assistant and asked if anyone had ideas. We were all searching different things, trying to help, but the patron had enough, accused the entire department of not knowing anything, and left. Not two minutes later I found a list (without pictures) of all the bookings in that county, and another librarian found a list with pictures, which is probably what the patron had been referring to. If she had been even a tiny bit patient, rather than immediately getting salty the second we didn't know exactly what she was talking about, she could have gotten the information she wanted. Kind of annoying.

When I got back from dinner I was on the desk, for basically the rest of the night. It was only two hours but I didn't have anything to do off the desk so I was there for all four hours. I was productive in that time and finally made it through taking notes on all the lecture videos. I also got all my folders for the class organized. Now I need to condense everything that was covered into a bite-sized summary. Totally doable.

I also came up with what I want my displays to be next month. I have the kiosk upstairs, which doesn't check out that well so you basically just have to set it and forget it. I'm going to do gardening books, because it seems like we're around the time that people think about gardening. I also have the DVD display. I just had it in February and picked a really broad topic so I could just go and pull DVDs without having a list or putting too much thought into it. It also helps when other people have to fill it if it gets too low. So that is my new goal every time I have the DVD display. My new idea is Thrills & Spills, so I can just pull movies with action and excitement and whatever else. Should be easy.

I played around with sign ideas for the DVD display tonight and that is going to be a little tough. Of the two I like so far, one involves a baby elephant faceplanting in water and the other involves two puppies running together and one of them has tripped. I also put confetti over the top of each one because confetti is thrilling. Both will most likely be deemed “too wacky”.

At the end of the night it was a little stressful trying to get everyone out of the library after the big event in the auditorium. It was huge. They had all our extra chairs and there were still a bunch of people standing in the back. And inevitably there were a lot of people standing around after it was over. They weren't bad about it though, like some people are. They were trying to pick the place up and there was some urgency to it. I just had to stand there to add a little more incentive.

When I got home I ate some popcorn, clicked around the internet, and watched YouTube videos. And now it is 11:30PM. Ideally I will be able to come up with a my display signs tomorrow and get books pulled so I can put the displays up on Monday. Lofty goals.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can go to bed.