May 25, 2018

After several nights of not getting a lot of sleep, I was out like a light as soon as my head hit the pillow last night. I slept through the night and it was great.

The morning at work disappeared. I talked to the other librarian about a lot of work-related things, and also things that were not work-related, and I helped research a couple different reference questions, because they were coming in fast this morning. One of them was from the city looking for an ADA document of their own, which they had misplaced and hoped we had a copy. We apparently used to have it many years ago but got rid of it several years ago (along with a lot of other city documents) because we're not an archive and no one ever used them. The other questions was about a mysterious trailer park that used to be in town fifty or sixty years ago but I only found passing references to it, nothing that substantial.

I met with my boss for our monthly meeting. There wasn't a lot to talk about but I would still say it was productive.

I helped the academic librarian with a question about metadata. I couldn't find anything useful in our collection (which isn't surprising), and ended up sending her the example for one of my metadata assignments in grad school. I also tried helping her with an ebook situation on her phone and laptop. And I got a request from a patron to find a picture of his Marine Corps platoon from 1981. That didn't go anywhere. I found a lot of possibly useful sites but the class number he gave me proved elusive.

I went to the academic librarian's house for lunch, which was again nice because the travel time is significantly less than going to my Mom's house, so I get more of a break without having to stay at the library.

On a walkthrough after lunch I got cornered by one of our regulars down by circulation. The academic librarian knows her and it apparently came out that we were dating, so I think that was the reason for the initial contact, but them she rambled on about a lot of other things. Among the stream of consciousness was an offer to teach me a song with the academic librarian's name in it, and a request to help her transport a piano. I was eventually able to get away, but it took far longer than it probably should have.

Then I continued looking for the Marine Corps picture, before going on another walkthrough, refilling the audiobooks, and covering a break in the tech center. After that I talked to one of the other librarians for almost an hour. There was a lot of random stuff, but also some work stuff, so I feel okay about it.

I spent the last hour on desk, read the news, and worked on a personalized reading list. Then I went home, ate dinner, eventually picked up the academic librarian, and watched an episode of Psych before going to bed.