Textbook Season

Hi-ho, A Delgado the Librarian here, reporting to you LIVE from a Sunday afternoon at the reference desk. I had a lovely, lovely intersession full of personal time and movie watching. And guess what, y'all? I made a shift trade with a coworker and I have my Friday nights back! I haven't had my Friday nights free for over 2 years. Now I work Thursday evenings instead of Friday evenings. I still have Saturday afternoons.

School started up again on Monday and my first shift of the fall semester, Thursday evening, was SO BUSY! It was anti-cricket time. I loved it. I love being busy. Granted, I also love crickets because I can refuel (meaning I can eat a snack and not have to try being articulate) and read articles on umm... wikipedia. Most of my interactions on Thursday were operating hours questions and textbook questions. Open access period to textbooks starts on Monday morning. I had 1 reference question - sources needed for a 400 word essay about the influences of ancient Greek and Roman music on modern music. I used my fave db, GVRL which had separate articles on music in ancient Greece and Rome. I showed the student Grove Music Online too but I think Zhe will probably use the bulk of material from the GVRL articles.

Saturday (yesterday) afternoon was all textbooks all the time and again it was pretty much anti-crickets all day. The head librarian called me in to work this afternoon (Sunday) so instead of spending quality time on the couch with the kittens and Netflix, I'm sitting at the reference desk. I've had one question since noon. Ooops! Wait, two questions now. No worries though, I'm gonna use today's cricket time to catch up on our latest issue of McNaughton's - they supply our leisure reading section - and I have a personal campaign for my campus libary to include more YA fiction and more graphic novels. Wheeeeee!