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Slow Start Today
Jan. 12th, 2010 01:42 pmAnd I was doing so well, too. I was getting up around 8 in the morning last week, which was nice. Gave me plenty of time to make coffee and breakfast, dink around on the computer and then go and walk the dog.
And it all fell apart today because I don't have to go to work and so I slept through my alarm (or turned it off without fully waking up, more likely, but the result is the same...) and so didn't get up until 10-ish. And I haven't had my coffee yet, but that's okay because my favorite coffee house in town has opened up again.
Anyway, my library circulated 3 million items last year, actually, 3 million items a couple days short of last year, which means it was more like 3 million and change, but still. That's a fucking lot of items, and also explains why we had to add another hold shelf and I've been issuing new cards like crazy.
We have been very busy at work lately. Which is good, but it's overwhelming right now because we don't have our work study people because they're still on vacation. They come back next week but that doesn't really help us when we have only three people in the afternoon shift and we need two people in the check-in room to handle all the incoming stuff, one person at the desk, one person at self checks, one person running paging slips and another to call holds. That's three more people than we actually have and so everyone is running around like crazy.
It's great that we're busy, don't get me wrong. Job security and all that. But this happened last January, too, and I swear it's all because of resoultions. People resolve to save money in the new year and a big part of that is using the library when they hadn't previously. Unfortunately, it also means that people with large fines that they "didn't know about" (I don't care, you still have to take care of them) or worse have gone to collections come in, hoping to save money and then end up having to pay. Or get indignant and storm off saying they won't pay those fines and they'll never set foot in the library again. Fine, but it'll be reported to your credit agency and that is utterly not my problem.
...Where was I?
Right. Busy. Busy busy. I miss our workstudies. It seems we get a few every semester who just applied at the library because they think it'll be an easy job (haha), but this year I think we got a really good bunch who actually seem to have a work ethic and maybe even enjoy the library. Gasp! Eternal geekdom, of course.
Meh. I'm just waiting for my cell phone to charge so I can head out. I might actually go and work out today, or I might just take the puppy on a longer walk. We'll see.
And it all fell apart today because I don't have to go to work and so I slept through my alarm (or turned it off without fully waking up, more likely, but the result is the same...) and so didn't get up until 10-ish. And I haven't had my coffee yet, but that's okay because my favorite coffee house in town has opened up again.
Anyway, my library circulated 3 million items last year, actually, 3 million items a couple days short of last year, which means it was more like 3 million and change, but still. That's a fucking lot of items, and also explains why we had to add another hold shelf and I've been issuing new cards like crazy.
We have been very busy at work lately. Which is good, but it's overwhelming right now because we don't have our work study people because they're still on vacation. They come back next week but that doesn't really help us when we have only three people in the afternoon shift and we need two people in the check-in room to handle all the incoming stuff, one person at the desk, one person at self checks, one person running paging slips and another to call holds. That's three more people than we actually have and so everyone is running around like crazy.
It's great that we're busy, don't get me wrong. Job security and all that. But this happened last January, too, and I swear it's all because of resoultions. People resolve to save money in the new year and a big part of that is using the library when they hadn't previously. Unfortunately, it also means that people with large fines that they "didn't know about" (I don't care, you still have to take care of them) or worse have gone to collections come in, hoping to save money and then end up having to pay. Or get indignant and storm off saying they won't pay those fines and they'll never set foot in the library again. Fine, but it'll be reported to your credit agency and that is utterly not my problem.
...Where was I?
Right. Busy. Busy busy. I miss our workstudies. It seems we get a few every semester who just applied at the library because they think it'll be an easy job (haha), but this year I think we got a really good bunch who actually seem to have a work ethic and maybe even enjoy the library. Gasp! Eternal geekdom, of course.
Meh. I'm just waiting for my cell phone to charge so I can head out. I might actually go and work out today, or I might just take the puppy on a longer walk. We'll see.
