Mini-Shift

Hi-ho, A Delgado the Librarian here, reporting to you LIVE from a Saturday afternoon at the reference desk. I'm only working two whole hours today because I spent the majority of the afternoon buying a new/used car. My old one (a 1997 Toyota Corolla) lost A/C last week and every time I started it sounded like something really, really big was just gonna fall out of it. So, I'm now the proud owner of a new-to-me cadet blue 2008 Yaris. Hatchback, y'all because I'm just sassy that way. Why do I care about your new car? you may be asking. Well, after my old car started smoking on the access road on the way to work last week, I was just so bummed about having a car payment that I couldn't post. Sniff. Things are better this week and I've made peace with my car payment.

I haven't done much in my almost-hour at the ref desk. I reshelved a reference book about computer science and helped a student try to figure out a webpage's author for an assignment. That's pretty much it.

OH, I forgot to mention that last week (pre car-smoking) I met with the library director at Concordia about volunteering at their ref desk. She brought me iced coffee and we talked for 2 hours and I start my new volunteer gig tomorrow. I'm excited! I'll let y'all know how things go.

Study Room Ruckus

Hi-ho, A Delgado here, reporting to you LIVE from a Thursday night at the library! My shift started out fairly busy; I had 3 questions in the first 15 minutes: textbooks (still? at this time of the semester?), books on drafting, and something else that I've now forgotten. The highlight of the evening was when I had to shush some students cavorting in a group study room. The study rooms are towards the back of the library and I sit towards the front. Maybe the 2nd or 3rd time I heard shrieking and a door slam I put on my shushing hat and stalked off to remind the students that the rooms are not soundproof.

After that, it was pretty quiet. I passed the time by talking it up with the librarians staffing AskCO and AskAcademic. The AskCO manager librarian Kris was leading a virtual training of the service. I got so chatty (and witty because I just can't stop myself - ha!) that Kris shushed me and the other librarian. She said we were distracting her trainees. Ah well.

I had one AskAcademic question and I wound up having to refer the student to the librarian at CSU Global because I had absolutely no luck finding what the student wanted : additional capstone project examples. I also emailed the librarian because if those extra examples are out there I need to know where to find them.

Oh! I have fantastic news for y'all! I'm going to be volunteering at a new academic library starting in October! I'll be at Concordia University's library on selected Sundays. I'm meeting with the library director this Saturday for an orientation. I'm sooooooo excited! Yay another library! I'll let you know how my meeting goes on Saturday afternoon. Wheeeee!