Wednesday!

8:00 am - Got to work. I got to “sleep in” today... Started checking email, talked to one coworker about her progress discharging and filling the six carts we’re responsible for at the State Historical Society. We rotate through who goes over there each month so as not to overload one person. These carts will go out next Friday, so she’s got plenty of time to work on them. Spoke with my other coworker about his responsibilities at the Middleton Shelving Facility. He’s headed over there right now to count the two carts I filled there last week, and to take care of some other issues that have come up.

8:30 am - our student employee arrives. He was out yesterday, so I wanted to touch base on an item he’d had a question about: the item’s record wasn’t linked to the barcode. Easy fix! Also got the good news from him that he will be able to stay on here in the Fall!

8:48 am - printed out my daily reports, processed the exceptions

9:18 am - took a short break to fill out the form to transfer the two credits I earned on my Librarian’s Tour of Germany into my program at SOIS.

9:27 am - should probably finish cleaning off my desk at some point... left it with piles of stuff everywhere! Even if I’m only moving down the hall to ILL, I’m still MOVING! :)

9:58 am - my desk area is so... impersonal!

10:10 am - Went to move over the 12 carts that will be picked up from Memorial tomorrow and found one that was only half packed! Also grabbed some returns to discharge and process.

11:07 am - took a look at the first post-Budget repair bill-paycheck... this one is actually higher then usual, because it’s the second paycheck of the month, so no health insurance taken out. Next check will be the telling one...

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Circ Desk Shift

Highlights:

Patron needed to get something from our Locked Case... but no one had a key!

Usually, supervisors have keys for the case, but one is in a meeting and the other

is at lunch. Finally we tracked down our security guy and he got the key from the

key case. As the patron was waiting, he told me “This was supposed to be [his]

easy errand for the day” :(!

Can’t believe it! ANOTHER person needs a key we don’t have!

1:00 pm - Back in Google office, back to discharging

3:00 pm - Yep, you guessed it... still discharging

4:00 pm - headed home for dinner (leftovers) and some downtime!

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm - Working at Fitchburg Public Library

Highlights:

It is clear there are some differences in opinion in the meaning of the phrase “Items are in call number order, and ready to shelve”... :-/