Saturday

What I'm doing between questions: checking to be sure we have all the Man Booker short-listed titles (and winner), cleaning up the on-order material, and reading reviews.

1:00

• Pay to print
• Computer shut down [he actually accidentally punched the off button]
• Refesh time
• I'm instructed to "stay warm" by one of our regulars [who has sprouted a beard since I last saw him...oddly charming]
• Help with the scanner...picture coming up too dark [and the Queen of Technology--hah!--fixes it all up]

2:00

• [phone] Three items requested: we have one on the shelf, another is checked out, and the third hasn't been released yet so I do a request for purchase
• "Catholic" movies [for teens...er....]
• Look up card #, and can she ask for extra time if she needs it [blah blah, basically yes, unless...]
• [phone] Morality and moral controversies [uh, no, probably a college library...]
• Borrow the USB drive
• Librarian H warns me that she sent a woman here to use a study room because the quiet area she was in suddenly was invaded by a group of kids working on a project ; she arrives, grumpy as promised

3:00

• [Big City Nearby] magazine from this August [so much easier to get to these now that we've moved them to the reference area]
• A flock of baby Mormons arrive....
• [phone] "Amazing Grace" the DVD [is here, and I set it aside for her]
• ...at the same time "Dead Poet's Society" [our copy has disappeared, so she's out of luck :(]
• Renew expired nearby-library card...front desk [takes awhile to sort this out due to language issues, but we're good]
• Pay to print
• "Do you have any hard candies?" [his throat is dry]
• Help with photocopying
• Pay to print
• VERY complicated question about a college paper on the character traits and ethics of Katniss Everdeen

4:00

• Pay to print
• Refresh patron time (and calm him down, since the guy next to him--the hard candy dude--is coughing...so...MOVE, buddy!...and he does, without me having to say it)
• Very Loud Woman needs Debbie Newcomb [i.e. Macomber] books
• Discussion with Children's Librarian post-Día de los Muertos program about cleanup and her after-work activities [mine included shoving food in my piehole and going to sleep]
• ...and the panic of closing commences