9:00 [in the children's room]
- Family comes in with under-2 kid (mom, dad and two grandparents) [play for awhile, show off the library to visiting grandparents, leave]
- Staff member flies in to say there's a crisis in the workroom and they're swamped at the circ desk [Tech Staff person's pet bunny died suddenly at home--she's wrecked....don't judge, people!]
10:00 [in the children's room]
- Yes, that was seriously all that happened. Currently, at 10:10, there is one adult in here, looks like she's going through her mail or something. The sun is shining outside and I definitely see people coming and going through the front doors, but no kids.
- Bunny grandma has come in and calmed down TS person who won't leave because we're short-staffed today
- Shelver asks for an explanation for the way we're numbering/sorting the Star Wars books in the adult fiction section; I verbally explain this chart to her [Star Wars people, I love your geekdom, and loathe everything else about the 'universe' in which you live]
- Also, I just realized the books on the shelf, if I owned them all and wanted them in order, should start with the leftmost book being the furthest back in time (25,793 Before the Battle of Yavin) and count backwards to 0 BBY and then start at 0 ABY and count forwards to 45 ABY (at least to date) [the shelver just turned and walked away shaking her head]
- Librarian AB comes in to ask me about stats and logins and blah-blah with our ILS [my short answer is "I don't know, but I don't think what you're doing will change the stats counts] ; she also says she's fine with me staying in here for another couple of hours
- Shelver returns to ask about a call number on a Board Book ["I don't understand this board book..." My response: "I'm really sorry about that!"]
- Truck books, REAL trucks, not stories [holy crap an actual reference question!!]
- ...and Kleenex
11:00 [in the children's room]
- (same) Shelver has yet another question....about the His Dark Materials series, which I love and can therefore answer easily
- Check in with bunny mom and tell her to just go home if she needs to
- [there are now TWO SEPARATE FAMILIES here in the area--so BUSY!!]
- I go get my lunch bagel because my stomach is scuh-REEM-ing
- Rump (Shurtliff) [we have 4 copies, but three are in storage, and the other is checked out--off I go to the scary basement to retrieve a copy]
- Librarian AB calls to remind me she needs to eat lunch, oops
12:00
- ...so now I'm at Ref
- And I replenish the nickels in our change drawer because the print station isn't returning nickels automatically today [tech win!]
- How to transfer music from disc to thumb driver, only she didn't bring the computer in, so I sort of show her and she says she'll try, but probably will come back with her laptop
- Guest pass for internet use (and extend time till closing)
- How to close out when done online
- [so basically in 15 minutes I tripled my patron interactions for the 3 hours at the kids' desk]
- Book with "things to write in sympathy cards" instead of repeating what everyone else says [in this case, Google is what he needs, not a book; who uses books anymore??]
