May 30, 2018

I dropped the academic librarian off at her house before heading to work for our all-staff meeting. It lasted about a half an hour and it was mostly about the new name badges, with a brief bit about safety updates to the phone (the addition of a panic button and a PA button, so we don't have to type in a code to use the PA). The new badges will be active next Monday and will be used to let us in the building and on a few doors in the building. Should be safer and more convenient than keys.

I talked to my coworkers for a little bit until we opened, then I went down to our new work area in the tech center. I spent the rest of the morning coming up with a display idea for the DVD display next month and making several versions of a potential sign for the display. I didn't do anything crazy in the design, just looked through a bunch of stock images, but I like it. I also got a brief start on making labels for the prize containers for summer reading.

I talked to the academic librarian for a few minutes before heading to my Mom's house for lunch. I was on desk for two hours when I got back. I handled interlibrary loans and a phone call related to academic articles, once again thanks to the university library fire. I also responded to an email from my boss about the tour I gave to grad students last year (set up by the academic librarian), because they want to do it again but were interested in more academic resources, because of the university library fire. That damn fire. And I helped one of the other librarians set up the summer reading prize table by putting the plastic skirt on it, and suggesting putting the big signs on an easel.

I refilled audiobooks and bestsellers during my walkthrough and then taught another tech desk person how to reserve rooms. And then I was on desk for an hour. I made a sign, helped patrons, and read the news.

Picked up Chipotle after work and that took awhile because they were training a new guy who was super slow, hopefully because he was new. Then I headed to my Mom's house. We ate, watched videos (despite it taking forever to get the videos to work for some reason). After dinner I drilled holes outside and put in hooks so my Mom can hang some more stuff on the back porch. I also reset the router because my Mom has been hearing a lot of stuff about resetting the router to disrupt possible malware.

When I got home I was able to play a little CoD: WW2 for the first time in what feels like forever. Then I went and picked up the academic librarian and came back to my house.