Saturday

What I'm doing between questions: whatever I can figure out to kill time. So getting orders ready to send for my buying section(s), sending some of those orders, marking items in the catalog that we own that have received awards, sending the list of last month's Withdrawn Items to the buying staff...yknow, whatever.

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??]