1:00 [in the children's room]
- Close/Lock children's bathroom doors as we open.
- Talk to Librarian C about splitting the desk hours, and then put out all of today's newspapers, dropping one with patron RR who will collect a list of books from the reviews sections and give them to me later
- Smile [the copy on the shelf isn't there, so I go get one of the SIX (!) in storage]
- On the way to and from storage, I direct one person to the second copier in the back of the building, and help another person with the first copier
- Sort out transactions tally sheet for the day
- Random semi-homeless woman is wandering through for some reason....go away! [somehow my unspoken command works!!]
- Two tweener girls come in look around and then head to the YA area
- Family of 5 kids + Mom arrive; the older kids immediately sign on to play Roblox while Mom and toddler ask for the train set and go play, analog-style
- My Many-Colored Days and I Am Not Going to Get Up Today [all our shelved copies are out, or MIA, so I send her to Circ for them to check storage for either/both]
2:00 [in the children's room till 2:30, then adult]
- [phone] "Car crash. I'm fine. Books I had in the car are long gone with the car, though. What do I do?" [I transfer her back to Circ since I'm not sure what our policy is on sad stories like this--I mean, obviously, she has fines and overdues, but are we going to charge for the books? I don't know...]
- Changing of the Guard: nothing of major import to exchange info about
- "How many books can I check out?" [not really a limit] "Even if my card is from [next town over]?" [Yep, all good--load up the truck!]
- Oldie patron, who's been coming here forever, needs a local train schedule ... and then a guest pass because the trains are on Sunday schedule (i.e. there are fewer) so she has time to kill
- Another regular patron stops to say bye: she looks more depressed every time I see her...kinda worried about her
- [phone] Multiple new title reserves from one of my absolutely favorite patrons
- Hours and phone number for local antiques place; PLUS compliment about how these out-of-towners like our library
3:00
- Card number [she has a fine, and nothing but a debit card, so she has to lug her infant back up front to pay so she can get online; I feel bad]
- Mom comes over to print, tweener-ish (?) kid meets her and lingers by the desk long enough to whisper to me, "You're an awesome librarian!" [Pull it together woman: open weeping is frowned upon at the Reference Desk!]
- Turn on cameras to survey the array of actual study-ers...in prep for closing
- Favorite book illustrator walks past on his way out [he's turning gray, but still hot]
- I go share the compliment from the kid with Librarian C since I didn't actually do anything to earn it, and maybe she did [nope, but we're splitting it]
- Pen? [Have mine]
- Trade quarter for another quarter; printer kiosk didn't like his
- [Next Town Over] Woman has collected four shopping baskets of materials on a table; I hope to hell she actually takes them all and hasn't just organized them for us to reshelve....
- Three specific books on cutting; his card's expired, so I fill out the requests and send him up front to renew his card so I can attach the requests to his online record afterwards
- White-out? [not today--it's not something we keep around, but we should]
- Chat with one of our regulars
- Cutting dude is back, looking for Rosetta Stone for Italian [I show him our new Transparent Language database and he says he'll try it out
- "I left a thumb-drive in the public computer yesterday..." [got it, and no, I don't have the cover to it because THAT wasn't in the slot, Ding-Dong]
- Closing announcement
- Shopping baskets are headed to the circ desk, one by one...how the heck is she planning to carry all this to her car??
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