Wednesday

What I'm doing between questions: loads of things....whatever I can find to fill the time


9:00

• Right off the bat, Reference Desk #2 computer is borked. Since that's the one I almost always sit at, I feel completely weird out here
• Fax
• Another library in consortium looking for item that's been on hold forever....I hate the people at this library!
• State H.S. football outlook printout
• Pay to print

10:00

• {{{crickets}}}
• Look up SAM number
• [internal call] Foil-backed labels or not? Uhm, yeeessss, I think?
• Pay to print

12:00 in the children's room

• There's a frog noisemaker inside one of the puzzles near the desk in here that seems to be motion activated; so far it has croaked at two staff members
• Patron brings in list of 7 or 8 books on food chains and animals--I find every one of them! This is...unusual
• No one got out a reference tally sheet this morning...oops
• The waiting list computer just booped to let the person waiting that they've been assigned a computer. Except...no one has registered to be assigned and there are 10 vacant computers in this zone. WTF?! I'm starting to get paranoid about stuff today: too much weirdness!!
• Librarian M comes in prepped to do storytime...says "shit! I forgot..." under her breath [this is rare enough to warrant comment, believe me]
• "Where is the storytime?" [in the story room--must be her first time]
• [phone] Register for photo organizing program [I should come to that!]

3:00 in the children's room

• Internet guest pass [the printer here doesn't work...and duh, once I think it through, I realize she can't get online without a parent's permission anyway]
• Kid asks me to look up his card #; just about the time I get it, his mom arrives to take him home
• WHY did my two book orders from this morning cancel everything in the carts?? WTF?! This day is really strange [oh, well, it's because I used the AV account--which is odd since I didn't think we were supposed to use that anymore, so why did it default to that? Anyway, orders are now in]
• Quite a few people in here, but not many needed assistance....