Saturday

What I'm doing between questions: sorting the cart(s) of items to be cataloged into date order. 

9:00 [Librarian T volunteered to cover my first hour in the children's room]

• [phone] "How do I set up IM?" Librarian T [can't log in]
• "I don't know if you know but I told her that she has to call [other library in consortium: BPL] because she lives in [B] County..." [yes that's how she started the "question"] Librarian T again [Just because you live in [B] County does not mean you're in the BPL library district. Where does she pay taxes? "I don't know!" If she doesn't pay taxes to a specific district, she can pick her home library and pay the out-of-district fee, but then she can't use any other libraries' materials. "Well, I'm going to ask [Head of Circ] on Monday." So why did you ask (?) me in the first place?? This is going to be the longest day ever....]

10:00 in Children's Room

• Naturally, the Read to the Dog lady is here with her dog and there's no publicity or anything about. I'm fed up: email to Children's Librarian and director
• Librarian T comes in to chat, at length, about labels and meeting with other Tech Svc ppl, and stuff and things and OMG OMG
• Finally a patron: "Can I be logged into the internet on two computers?" [no but I can look up your son's card number and you can both be on your own accounts...]

11:00

• Tape
• Stapler
• I look over patron's "Cash Only" signs and approve [he went to school with my son since forever and is low-IQ but generally a sweetie and working hard at managing a hair salon]
• New Debbie Macomber book [reserved for her]
• Guest pass x2
• More help for Cash Only dude re "do we have books back here?" etc, for his ??brother??
• Help printing a Google map
• Printer is over here now x 3or4
• "I asked about [a local recreation book] awhile ago..." [I find the request; it's self-published so we're waiting to hear from them about purchase]
• Guest pass ["I just moved here from California, and my ID and everything else burned"--dear God] -- he goes directly to YouTube, priorities being what they are to the young and multi-gauged
• Pencil

12:00

• Natural remedies for healthy living [not on the shelf, anywhere sensible; I marked it missing and reserved a copy from another library for her]
• "Wifi" [uhm, yes? Not enough bars to please her and no thank you. Nice]
• Extend time on guest pass [yup]
• Problem on Ref #1 [I shut it down]
• How to open an attachment in Gmail [stoopid Gmail...]
• "Where's your wifi?" [she's actually looking for the rude wifi woman]
• Ref #1 just blew up again--"I think it's snakebit" lol [patron moves over and I go kick #1 in the head]
• Phone number for Yellow Cab in [Big City]
• Guest pass [but they have a card for a nearby library; circ told them they couldn't use that card because it isn't in the database...so I enter it for them, because circ is lazy]
• Bones season 2--why isn't it here yet? [because it's not due till the 21st--I promise we'll call you!]

2:00

• "Why can't I connect to the wifi?" [I think you need to learn how to use your very-off-brand device...it's not working]
• Ink nearly out on public printer [reset for 50 more pages and get new ink for later]
• Consumer Reports April issue [guess why? Yes, I get to hear all about his car accident necessitating a review of what to get to replace the totaled one]
• Forgotten PIN [reset]
• And it's pouring rain....