Last night I got eight and a half hours of sleep and it was great.
I spent the first three hours at work upstairs. I listened to music
while reading news articles, answered several phone calls from the
librarian at the reference desk because she was working on social
media posts for next semester. She kind of got put in charge of that
stuff while we're in between PR people and it's stressing her out
just a tad bit. I also watched the opening and closing keynotes for
the LibraryCon webinar thing. I tried watching one of the sessions
but the sound was bad and the whole thing was just really awkward.
There were three or four “panel” members that were each in their
own homes and the panel leader kept asking questions to no one in
particular, so every time multiple people would start to answer and
then there was an awkward pause until someone would jump in again.
It made me uncomfortable, so I switched back to music and read the
local newspaper.
I was on desk for an hour after that. I talked to my coworkers a
little bit and then I finalized my biography display signs for next
month and sent them over to the printer.
When I got back from dinner I had a walkthrough and ran into the teen
librarian as she was leaving. One of her hands was bright blue. She
had posted the cap on her new pen and was spinning it around
absentmindedly as she was helping a patron. The problem with this is
that it is a piston filler pen and while messing with the cap she
ended up activating the piston and pushed all the ink out of the pen.
I thought that was pretty funny. I brought my bottle of ink back to
work today because she ran through what was in her pen already. And
then after the posting incident, she was able to refill it for a
third time.
After my walkthrough I went and printed off the display signs. I
forgot to specify which folder when I sent them to the printer so it
took me awhile to find my prints but I did eventually and got them
printed. I had two more walkthroughs after that and in between I was
able to finish the only library magazine I had in my box.
Then I was on desk for the last two hours. The most interesting
thing in that time was helping a patron with the microfilm machine.
He had a microfiche that had his enlistment information from Vietnam,
including his picture. He enlisted when he was seventeen and a half,
which seems like something that shouldn't have been allowed. We got
the picture and I was able to edit it a bit to made it clearer so we
could actually tell it was him and see the information on the board
next to him. He seemed very appreciative.
Other
than that, I looked at the editor's notes for the manuscript of Milo
Yiannopoulos' book Dangerous.
He is currently involved in a court case against Simon &
Schuster and the edited manuscript was presented as an exhibit in the
case, which made it available to the public. The comments are pretty
great. Someone on Twitter highlighted a bunch of them, but I think
it might be worth looking through the manuscript to find all of the
gems.
I
spent the last little bit of work looking at the Library of Congress'
Labs website. One of the things you can do on the site is look
through old newspapers and highlight any pictures or illustrations as
part of a crowdsourcing project. The other half of that is
transcribing what the pictures and illustrations are. It's a pretty
interesting idea and it's fun looking through old papers.
When I
got home I caught up on YouTube videos and clicked around the
internet. Tonight's rabbit hole consisted of countless funny images
on Imgur. It's been awhile since that has happened and I needed it.
But it is now late, and I want to sleep, so I'm going to record my
audio journal and go to bed.
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