I got less that six hours of sleep last night and it felt like it for
the rest of the day.
On my way to work I got behind the public transit bus for the third
time this week. I get behind it on the last half of my journey, it
is going to the library, and it drives twenty-five miles per hour.
It's rough.
I was on desk for two hours when I got to work and spent that time
doing things. I got a start on my homebound lists, I compiled the
attendance and feedback information from my workshop last night, I
helped a patron find information about the Coast Guard, and I engaged
in a long email conversation with a patron about a purchase request.
When she filled out the form she didn't put a specific book and I
thought maybe she just wanted help with our digital library services
and used the wrong form to ask us. Over the course of an hour and
several emails, I figured out she had actually meant to request a
specific book but had forgotten to put it on the form. That would
have been maybe a ten second conversation if we had been
face-to-face. A technology fail.
When I got off desk I had a walkthrough and then went up to the
cubicle to continue working on my homebound lists. After lunch I was
able to finish my lists and I pulled about half of the books before I
was on desk again for an hour. In that hour, among other things, I
checked out the books I pulled, updated my spreadsheets, and started
making bookmarks for the books.
In my last two hours I was off desk and I was able to finish pulling
books. I got them all checked out, updated my spreadsheets,
continued but didn't finish making bookmarks, and I got them bagged
up and stored in our closet so they are out of the way.
I would have been able to finish the bookmarks but I ended up helping
a patron figure out how to use Excel for a budget. I ended up just
finding a template for that because it would have taken me forever to
actually build one from scratch and explain the process to her. Once
I had it pulled up she wanted to send it to herself so she could work
with it on her computer. This required her remembering her email
password (which she had reset two hours previously) but she didn't
remember it. So we went through the process to reset the password
again. To be fair to her, I get screwed over frequently when I have
to change a password I've become used to typing in every day. She's
not alone.
I also explained the events project to the assistant so she could get
a start on it if she got bored. We are getting rid of a bunch of
even types and changing some things with age groups with our new
events program. This means before we can import the old events into
the new system, we have to change the event type and age group so it
aligns with the new system. Super tedious. But hopefully the
assistant will be able to make some progress on it.
After work I picked up Sonic for dinner because I was feeling too
tired and unmotivated to cook. I also stopped by my sister's house
because she got some pumpkin pie Pop Tarts and brown rice for me.
And then I spent the rest of the night watching YouTube videos and
livestreams. It was a super uneventful night.
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