March 8th

March 8th / Sat / 10 am - 5 pm

In the morning I began by checking in items from the drop boxes. I spent an hour looking for the books I'd searched for to use in my story time. To my dissapointment, many of them could not be found, but luckily I found some possibilities by just browsing through titles.

After using the Horizon search to look for books, I really decided I didn't like it. Before I found it hard to use and inconvienant, but now it was frustrating. Sometimes I just want to know what Brandywine has - but I have to go through all the results to find the titles available - which can be time consuming. I also kept getting logged out a lot. I also didn't know there was a limit on items you could put on hold - which i discovered while looking for good books to read for storytime. Since I'm a regular user type I was limited to 10 titles. Charlotte has gotten many more than that in the past but I bet that's because she's a children's librarian.

It was a very slow day, which isn't normal for a saturday. It was pouring heavily for most of the day so we figured there wouldn't be many people coming and going. It made for less shelving and more of a chance to get some tasks done around the desk (like refilling staplers). Lynn also got a new set of phones, the types with handsets that can synchronize and be used around a large area. This will be very convienent for all the work stations

I replaced more broken CD cases, most of them from the YA section today. I found some artists (like Janice Joplin and the rolling stones) which could have been in the regular section and Linda agreed with me. There were also quite a few that had new lables which were deffinately not new, so I removed the lables and the new tags in the system.

I also spent a little over 2 hours shelf reading the non-fiction section. I skipped around to the most used sections which were in dire need of help! (Cooking, Sports, Poetry, Religon)