June 17, 2004
Refgrunt, 6/17
Here are some of the questions I had today at the adult reference desk...
helped a guy create a new Yahoo email account
filed the new pages that came in to update the California OCC Guide It was really interesting to see how the titles of so many of the jobs had changed since the last time those pages were updated. I didn't have time to read any of them while filing since it was so busy all day, but its all online as well. Here's the entry for a librarian. This is how they describe the work environment: "Work schedules for Librarians directly serving the public may be busy, demanding, and even stressful. Answering the information needs of people and teaching them to use library resources can be taxing." Hmmm....
found I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Nemesis : The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys, which the library doesn't own yet (it just came out this month) so I learned how to request new books for consideration
telephone books, x2
Flamenco dancing videos
Havana Dreams
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present
A Midsummers Night Dream -- the 1999 version with Michelle Pfeiffer (I found two other productions but could not find that one anywhere, even though it was supposed to be in)
biographies of Leonardo Da Vinci
legal information on child custody and emancipation
Night in for Hunting (audio book)
Math text books
Today's Milpitas Post
Chinese language newspaper
Consumer Reports, June 2001
information about being a legal translator
12 Monkeys (video)
2 Fast 2 Furious (video)
Poisonwood Bible (in paperback)
Japanese Cookbooks -- in English or in Chinese -- and all of them were checked out!
Spent a lot of time finding information on quinceanera for a patron who called and was doing research. Best bets seemed to be Quinceanera! : the essential guide to planning the perfect sweet fifteen celebration by Michele Salcedo and pamplet from the Mexican American Cultural Center and I also printed a variety of articles from the subscription databases and the Net. She came in at the end of the day and seemed to like what I had found (which of course made my day)
I also read the 4th, 5th, 14th, and 15th amendments to a patron over the phone
printer jams
people complaining about people not watching their time limits on the Internet
etc.
plus, during my lunch break (at 3pm) there was a magician performing so I got to watch for a bit!!
A very satisfying day at the library!
Posted by Emily at June 17, 2004 06:09 PMThis is a remarkable list that reflects on the power of libraries, the diversity of our culture and the cool things that librarians get paid (meagerly no doubt) to explore. My own observation about the new Seattle Library is that it is a powerful symbol of democracy, It projects the importance and diversity of the individual users. Its utilitarian almost industrial architecture and furnishings suggests that it is a library designed for the people and for lots of them. Do other countries and cultures provide such access to so much information without cost?
Posted by: Jay Reich at June 19, 2004 05:36 PM