Full Swing

Today was a nice steady day, although with too early of a start for my liking. This morning, I arrived before the library opened for a staff meeting. We had a brief session regarding cataloging before joining the rest of the staff for the regular meeting. It was interesting to see how things work at the library on a managerial level. They are just now having one person head a cataloging "department". Additionally, they are having issues with RFID. Mooresville was the tenth library in the nation to adopt RFID when it first arrived on the scene and now all their equipment is antiquated so it's impossible to replace. However, to update everything is a huge budget expenditure so they really have to consider and plan for this. During the regular staff meeting, the director spoke first, covering a variety of topics, including increased patronage due to the Got Access? program, the success of some recent events, and upcoming events. Then representatives from the various departments took turns providing information about happenings within their departments. The meeting lasted for just over an hour and then I headed off to the children's department and Suzanne left for a while.

Jaymi and I went through opening procedures, each taking separate tasks, so I will need to be reminded of the things she handled before I'm there by myself. Time seemed to fly by this morning as we completed these opening duties, registered kids for summer reading, and I worked on Youth Bio. I got the hang of that pretty quickly and worked on that for most of the day, answering reference questions and getting kids signed up for summer reading throughout the day. After Suzanne came back and ran her art program, we set up the community room for the family program tonight. Then we had a brief meeting about Little Tykes. I still feel pretty unsure about it, but I guess I'll see next Tuesday how it goes. I'll just have to work on planning that on Friday.

I actually don't mind working on Youth Bio (although this is only my first real day with it, so I may regret that statement later). Sure, it's tedious, but it's real technical library work. It makes me feel important being able to change the cataloging information. I don't know if it's really the best idea for space-saving but I suppose all libraries deal with space issues differently. Hmm...seems I don't really have much to say about today. I think days at the library will be more ordinary from now on. I suppose we'll see. I enjoyed it!