Wednesday

What happened today...... Today was storytime day.  The youth librarian is the same guy who I helped with storytime last week.  He is legendary.  Plays his guitar and does a brilliant job. 

One thing that stood out at me were the number of kids / parents that attend.  Stats require us to count both the adults/parents and the kids.  I tried to count and believe we had approx 45 adults and 65 kids.  Imagine trying to do a storytime session with that. 

The first song we sang was Howdy dudey.  We also did so many others and I hope in the future we can share our prepared songs.... with them.  We read a total of 5 stories and sang 2 sets of songs.  We also finish with a book suggestion which is great.  He builds up suspense with that. 

I will also ask him to email us the goggle thing.  This is something like make a pair of goggles with you hands and remind parents that storytime is now over and they need to keep an eye on their kids. 

Then I had lunch and after lunch assisted the team leader (which is branch manager) to weed the reference collection. This is a different process to what we use and really need to justify what we delete, keep or reassign to borrowing.  I personally would have been more ruthless (as we were doing the 510's -- Maths) and would have kept 1 title -- a maths dictionary.  All others would have either been weeded (due to age -- pub date prior to 1990) and not really ready ref -- more something patrons need to take home. 

I was supposed to go to a ref collection meeting today however that was cancelled.  I had a convesation with one staff member regarding roles and responsibilities.  This was very interesting.