Saturday

So, yeah, it's been awhile. I've been buried, both from the cataloging standpoint and while out at various public desks. Busy times at the library. I'll see if I can keep up with this today since it'll be interesting to have a snapshot of a rainy Saturday during Summer Reading Program time.

Also, I'm setting this all up prior to the library's opening, so that helps. Lights in the building flash on at 8:43--yes, I have been sitting in the (relative) dark in here since 8:15.

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What I'm doing between questions: checking the most recent Death Dates list(s) against our catalog, and checking my buying areas of our collection against the latest Public Library Core Collection (a.k.a. PLCAT). 

9:00 in the children's room

• Two girls arrive, looking for the "Horse Diaries" series [no one in our consortium owns, so I do a request and get a name to contact when we get them]
• They are also looking for their "first library card" pictures in the bin--Mom eventually finds them because they do look different from a year ago ;-)
• "Where can I look something up in the catalog?" [I point him to the dedicated computers, rather than the Internet stations]
• Pencil [same guy]
• "How many items on a specific subject can I check out?" [same guy]
• Nope, gotta check out everything at the front desk [same guy--really, there are other people here, but they're doing their own things]

10:00 in the children's room

• Page comes in here to run this morning's picklist
• One of my favorite patrons--whose wife has the same disease as the one my sister had--passes through with a cheerful greeting
• How to look up children's books in the catalog
• Sign up an adorable little guy for SRP
• How to get online, and what the games computers have on them [yup: games]
• Prizes for two little ones...

11:00 ...ok, I really thought I would make it today, but--like everyone else in town--I just don't feel good, so I'm going home early (again)

12:00