12 - 2 ; 4 - 5 p.m.

What I'm doing between questions: checking recent awards books against the catalog.

12:00 in children's room

• Hi to multiple staff members wandering through
• Hi to grandpa with two toddlers heading to the block/Lego table
• Bathroom key ... and dad returns it
• "Can I sit in here with my laptop and my baby?" [of course! Plus, she brought Grandma to entertain baby]
• "Can I print from my laptop? [uhm no not yet...working on it]
• Grandpa needs bathroom key for one of his charges
• ...and it's back [both boys get the opportunity to hand it to me: first the oldest, then I give it to the youngest and he hands it back...too sweet]

1:00

• Wireless info 
• [phone, from circ] "Is [patron] up back there? I can't get her record to open." [nope not us for a change!]
• It's really chilly back here!
• Need to print from the internet, doesn't have a card but has his friend's...[ugh, don't tell me that...but I make him a day pass and tell him they work JUST LIKE the cards if he knows his friend's p-word...lol]
• "TEXT MESSAGE RECEIVED" says a guy's phone as he walks past. Loudly.
• Celiac disease/Gluten-free material that he had last week [all checked out--hot topic! I reserve the two he really wants]
• Day pass guy needs to print
• Learning piano books for older man, who could really use something in Spanish, but we don't have [but he's happy with what I do find, hooray]
• More time online
• Ethernet cable returned
• Pay to print
• How to print [he's easily frustrated by my stellar explanation of how to print]--and then prints and pays everything as he goes
• [phone] Next Sookie Stackhouse books [I find them on the shelf for her, but then she needs to chat about some other books...blah blah blah]
• Meanwhile, someone comes to where I'm on the phone at circ looking for "whoever's at Reference"
• She forgot her PIN
• Massive slow printer dude asks, "Do you take credit cards?" [minimum of $5 charge, which is way more than he needs to print]
• PIN woman is popping her lips...argh

4:00 in children's room

• [staff question] How are the kids' Grief Section books coded?
• Spirited Away [we have volumes 2-4 of the graphic series and the movie--off she goes to look for the movie]
• Any books or CDs by current popular people, like Katy Perry, etc.? [...and she's off to the CDs to plow through 781.64 by singer's last name]
• More middle school girls can't actually get the words for what they want out; I suggest a paper and pencil which thuRILLLLS them....and the representative girl writes down "Girl Puberty Book" [right, big shock on that one...here we go...]
• Books on how to be a friend for K-aged girls [we find a few]
• "My brother left my iPod over there a few days ago..." [yeah, no we don't have it, because you asked at the front desk and they didn't find it, and I'm going to be looking in the same places. Sorry dude]
• Books that make cricket sounds...[hello, Eric Carle!]
• [staff question] Can we make the CSI:NY records findable? Some are in CSI:NY, some are in CSI : New York, some have the season spelled out, some have the number...[yeah, I'll fix when I'm done here]