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Feb. 19th, 2013 02:12 pmToday is being A Day.
The Tuesday after a holiday is always a little frantic because the library has been closed for two whole days, but today we have the added joy that everyone who has come into use the computers so far has been mildly computer illiterate. Like, "I put my email address in the address search box, why is this not taking me to my email?" computer illiterate. Plus, the bookdrop and the hold list have both been something like 3 times their normal size. This despite my manager coming in yesterday to empty the bookdrop, which means that everyone in the world brought back their books last night.
Also a lady who put something like 20 books on hold and then, once they had all come in, decided that she couldn't read them all at once and so wanted to cancel all the holds and replace them. Then she left, while I had her enormous pile of books on my desk. I then realized that, if I just replaced the hold and send them to their home branches, the holds will pop as soon as they get there and come right back. So I have to call her and ask if she wanted them suspended. Which I don't want to do, because she's grumpy.
And there was no food to take for lunch and when I stopped at the grocery store to buy something, I realized that I had left my wallet in my other coat and had to go back home for it.
Grar.
On the plus side, it is a really pretty day without being unpleasantly warm and I had a nice conversation with a patron who had come in to pick up a copy of Les Miserables. So that's something.
The Tuesday after a holiday is always a little frantic because the library has been closed for two whole days, but today we have the added joy that everyone who has come into use the computers so far has been mildly computer illiterate. Like, "I put my email address in the address search box, why is this not taking me to my email?" computer illiterate. Plus, the bookdrop and the hold list have both been something like 3 times their normal size. This despite my manager coming in yesterday to empty the bookdrop, which means that everyone in the world brought back their books last night.
Also a lady who put something like 20 books on hold and then, once they had all come in, decided that she couldn't read them all at once and so wanted to cancel all the holds and replace them. Then she left, while I had her enormous pile of books on my desk. I then realized that, if I just replaced the hold and send them to their home branches, the holds will pop as soon as they get there and come right back. So I have to call her and ask if she wanted them suspended. Which I don't want to do, because she's grumpy.
And there was no food to take for lunch and when I stopped at the grocery store to buy something, I realized that I had left my wallet in my other coat and had to go back home for it.
Grar.
On the plus side, it is a really pretty day without being unpleasantly warm and I had a nice conversation with a patron who had come in to pick up a copy of Les Miserables. So that's something.
