Thursday

What I'm doing between questions: not cataloging any of the (no exaggeration) 1000+ items in my backlog, and looking at subject heading changes from March through May. Librarian J is on vacation this week--after calling in sick Tues-Fri last week--and Librarian B is sick today, so I'm filling in as usual. And there's really not a lot of "in between" time.

12:00

• Report back about Sunday hours at a nearby local library [and they have study rooms there too, which is what he's mostly concerned about
• [Big-City] newspaper comes back so I can keep it safely behind the desk
• [phone] Three paperback mystery books we don't own--we'll buy the two published this year and hope the other one is available to ILL
• Help with scan-print station
• Books to help get ramped up for taking nursing classes [and by gosh we have a lot!]
• Nonresident registration to use internet
• "Why won't my card let me log on the net?" [expired, easy fix]
• That takes us to 12:25
• "Where do I print?" [she's an oldie who knows where the printer used to be, but not how to use the 15-month-old system, lol]
• ILL is done and entered
• Sunday hours dude needs a study room, so I go evict the person here the longest
• Another guy comes in for a study room, so I empty the middle one since the tutor using it has disappeared from sight
• I go to check that I'm not going to get kneecapped for doing that; by the time I get back her stuff is gone--hope it was she who took it!
• Help printing from wi-fi
• Help with creating a tear-off public sign
• Same guy needs to print something else from wi-fi
• Cuh-RAAzy person arrives and talks to my relief person, Librarian K [I get to the workroom and summon K. for a "question/conference" back here]

2:00 [children's dept.]

• HOLY CRAP -- Summer Reading Program checkins galore!
• Nonna here with here grandchildren whose cards are so expired they aren't even in the system anymore; no she can't sign for them--has to be a parent--no she can't take the apps home and bring them back signed...poor kids, Nonna has also had a pop or two today :'(
• Mayhem in the playing area, by the way; and loud giggling 9-year-old boys playing Minecraft on the computers
• I know I keep saying this, but holy crap...it's never-ending in here! Bathroom keys, 1000 Books stuff, SRP stuff, Nonna From Hell....
• Gigglers leave. Thank God. Refreshingly quieter, despite the squealers in the play area
• Just realized I never ate lunch....

4:00

• Ran to a nearby gas station and picked up a small bag of popcorn and an oatmeal cookie for lunch, at 3 p.m.; yay eating like an adult!!
• Library MR: "Please read this and tell me if I missed something or it's not clear" [because we suspect the director should not be allowed to work the SRP desk if he can't follow directions--multiple complaints]
• YA guest internet pass
• Multiple kids (tweens) out here playing Minecraft--I can see six eight screens from where I'm sitting. And three of them are in front of boys with snacks so I get to go be the mean librarian....
• "YA reading checkins are upstairs today.." [I love this girl though--she's from Uganda and smart as a whip academically and socially]
• Earbuds purchase
• ...and the snacking continues so I go remind them that I literally can't help but see them whenever I look up because of the way the desk is situated in relation to their computers; last warning before ejection
• Of course, the smart girl (above) is wandering around with a lollipop in her mouth...ugh
• Change internet password
• "I reserved a study room"--well, there's (luckily) one free, but we don't do reservations..."The woman who is on vacation this week said she's write me in The Book" [we don't have A Book, not for anything like that]--email to staff asking WTF?!
• Smart girl and her two cousins can't seem to get online; we change passwords, I look up the cousins' card #s and eventually they're all settled online
• When I look up, six fewer Minecrafters, including the snackers -- hurrah
• Cousins' dad (uncle?) needs to use the stapler 
• "Can I copy these somewhere?"--very nice lady, and yes
• Travel stuff for [town near where I went to college]--I show her the area we keep brochures on the metropolitan area it's in
• [phone] Tech/Circ person calls in response to WTF email that four or five people got an email from Librarian J on Saturday about this because they were on the schedule for 4-6 today so that's all who would probably need to know [which is ludicrous since the schedule changes minute-by-minute around here!! why not throw caution to the wind and send the email to {{gasp!!}} everyone?!]

5:00

• Somewhat nutty patron wanders by and stops to say "Hi, Girl!!" She's a riot--though she doesn't always make sense and she can seem rather combative
• "How do I get online?"
• How to get the microfilm back on the original roll once you've looked at all of it
• "What time is it?" for study room sign-in
• How to print (for the new online person), and then how to get home [she's using the map from the local phone book, so I Google Map her a bigger map so she doesn't go blind walking]
• ...for some reason that reminds me that it's garbage night, so I have to get all the stuff to the curb when I get home....maybe I won't stay late at work after all....
• Interview lady is done
• "Can old magazines be checked out? [Yes] Eyes light up: "is there a limit to how many??" [not really...wow, he's excited!]
• Stapler returned, with pencil as interest
• Tech: "I need candy--where's the adult prizes!?" [so I have a piece with her]
• Can't log in--card is expired
• Help scan-print
• Card expired, and he doesn't have it anyway--back to circ for a new one
• Tech (different one) asking about room thingy