6:00 - 7:00 p.m. ; 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.

What I'm doing between questions: the ever-popular demand order cards...

6:00

• [Phone message] Inventing Memory; Images of America [our town]; Pat Jordan's new book [which apparently is still not published; we had the others on our shelves
• Headphones
• Return headphones [different person]
• Can I use my credit card on your internet connection? [uh, yeah...?]; where is a computer that's not in use [wow, we're full!]
• [I empty out the singles from our copier payment drawer--they are overflowing]
• Are these computers for public use? [yes, and grab it fast!]
• Printer needs paper
• Copy machine
• Pen
• Look up card number
• Where did my print job go? And why aren't they free? [they are, it's just hard to see the way the screen is laid out]
• Stapler [VERY green shirt!]
• History of Germany [awfully sassy teenage boy whose father wants him to "stand right!" as in don't slouch]
• Printer won't print [I think it's a popup window issue...leaving a note for the techie]
• Return headphones
• Where is the adult fiction section? How is it arranged?

7:30

• Is there a drinking fountain?
• Librarian JK heads to Board Meeting
• [{bloop}--our database goes out on me...weird]
• Printer problems
• Guy on cell phone does NOT get message about not using cell phones in the library...what a jerk!
• The patron who will not leave at closing arrives...of course
• Soccer players are downstairs
• Headphones [and his "collateral" (i.e., library card) is covered with gang grafitti]
• Fiction is up towards the front of the building
• Library cards issued at the front desk

8:00

• Pencil. With lead, please...
• Headphones
• New library card, but it won't let him log in [odd, but we get it working finally]
• Purchase a floppy?
• Where do I...oh yeah... [print]; one page is free, right? [yes]
• Doesn't cost me anything, right? [three pages--no]

And Librarian JK returns