6:00 in the children's room
- Discussion of last week's "how many in the jar" winner/prize, where to pick up YA prizes, what to do if "someone" loses her reading log [brother and sister that are here a LOT]
- Bathroom key
- Prizes for kids
- My son needs help finding calculus books to improved his D-grade from last semester
- Return key
- More prizes for kids
- Narnia books (for an embarrassed adult)
- Bathroom key
- More prizes
- Key returned
7:00
- I'm so excited that we now get Publishers Weekly for reviews! How lame am I? How lame are WE that we just started??
- And I've now read the instructions for the YA prize program, but can't find the bags of chips that are one of the choices [fingers crosses no one needs 'em]
- DVDs about dementia/Alzheimer's [hot damn, we have a bunch!!]
- Pay for printing
- Lost flash drive--still lost :-(
- Sign up for YA program
- Pay for printing...and then stapler
- Librarian K races back here to find the password for the security camera; apparently a cop needs to see something from earlier in the month [??]
- Pay to print and use stapler
- Extend time on SAM
- Tween girls being goofy
- Same girls: "the headphones at our computer are all chewed up..." [can you use a different computer with different headphones attached? OK, so go do that!]
- Sookie Stackhouse book #1
- Closing
I'm finding PW more hit-or-miss than the others that we use (BL & LJ). Sometimes I'll find some great stuff that's not showing up elsewhere. Sometimes EVERY review is negative. Sometimes most of the fiction items come from a publisher from whom we get 0 discount through our standard vendor (B&T doesn't, or hasn't in the past few years, discounted Severn House/Five Star mysteries or westerns). Sometimes they skew toward the bizarre (5/9 standard fiction reviews on L.Ron Hubbard books?! The last issue had a glowing review of a reissue of George R.R. Martin's 1st book, but for the low-low price of $125).
ReplyDeleteIn other words: I'm glad you're finally getting the chance to use it! I hope it meets your needs better than it often meets mine. :\
True confessions: I only read the starred reviews in my sections for collection development. Ergo, I finish each PW issue in about 10 minutes. Tops. ;-)
ReplyDeleteDang, that would make it go more smoothly. I need to work out a system!
ReplyDeleteYeah. Well. I haven't read more than a couple of dozen full reviews in a decade. For work, anyway.
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