Wednesday

What I'm doing between questions: trying not to rub my sore, allergy-ridden eyes which hurt like hell today. Also checking Fiction Core Collection against what we actually own.

3:00

• Renew time online x2
• "Can you look up my library card?" [yes, because he's a cute kid]
• "Can I sign up for Summer Reading?" [well, it's got less than a week left, but sure since this week's prize is free entry to next week's county fair...]
• Library card kid comes back--"can I get a guess pass?" [no dice figuring out his password]
• I fill them both in on the fact that they can use the YA area now (going into 6th grade), which they decide is far cooler than hanging out here in the grown-up section [DUH!}
• "Can we have a screen?" [he has a card, he knows his password, so...uhm, yeah....]
• Mr. P (on of the regulars) "donates" two pens he found by his computer [they started life as ours anyway, so....]
• Second time renewer finishes up and returns the pencil she borrowed earlier
• Look up card number + compliment about how great our library is compared to hers [though, having been to her library, hers has a MUCH better view: lake + beach!]
• Summer Reading kid returns, can't get online in YA [his birthday was entered wrong in his card; I fix it and give him a guest pass just in case]
• "Screen" guy meanders over for a pencil; his daughter/sister/wife finds a writing utensil so by the time he meanders back she doesn't need the pencil she sent him here for [we discuss Job's patience and taking deep breathes while she mutters to herself]
• Mr P stops to say bye and tell me that his wife is going to be incensed that he went to the library dressed "that way"--a pocketed clean blue T and clean jeans....--then he warns me it's likely to rain right around closing again tonight [great]
• I'm searching for a book someone requested in my collection section (200s: religion)--I finally find it in Amazon: self-published manure re Jesus [call patron and say no-one owns and we can't buy]
• "Screen" dude seems to be on the verge of murdering his companion; she is a bit (ahem) pushy
• ...but they're leaving and she's actually fine in person, if a little ding-dongy
• approx 3:35...RANDOM MAYHEM...

4:00

• Husband arrives from train station to fill me in on his trip to the hospital in the Big City....
• ...MAYHEM CONTINUES....till about 4:30 [I actually called for backup, twice!]
• 700,000 Summer Reading check-ins [omg this is the last week thank God!!]
• Reserve several movies for my regular Weds. aft. patron [she does NOT like subtitled movies, and she had two she asked for this time: "nevermind!"]
• Help with scanning to a flash-drive and uploading the doc to email to someone
• Mystery v. Mysteries, Western v. Westerns on genre labels [staff question]
• Pen
• Director from nearby library stops to say hi and give me a hug (she's a buddy) [the consortium directors met here this afternoon]
• Sign-in for study room x 2
• People magazine [we keep the current one back here so people might be less likely to trash it]
• Someone I know from Al-Anon walks by and says hi [she looks great! ...hmmm and yay]
• Scanned doc patron returns our flash-drive, and asks me to delete his file from it [I delete his AND four other people's....and send an email to Ref staff to remember to do this themselves!!]
• more flippin' genre label questions.... "are we doing Horror? What color?" [I have a sudden realization that in about 5 months someone is going to 'realize' that we should have used "Russian Stories" or "Novellas" or "Pseudonymous Author" (or other random things) and want to add them. We already caved on "Time Travel" which I think is covered under "Fantasy" and we aren't doing "Suspense" which is basically 75% of what we buy it feels like.....  /rant
• Ice Cream Museum yada yada yada

7:00

• There was stuff

8:00

• There was more stuff, and showing new staff how to close up shop and of course Zooey came in at 15 minutes prior to closing and stayed till 5 minutes after....