Library Day in the Life

The Library Day in the Life Project is a semi-annual event coordinated by Bobbi Newman  of Librarian by Day. Twice a year librarians, library staff and library students from all over the globe share a day (or week) in their life through blog posts, photos, video and Twitter updates.  You can learn more at the Library Day in the Life  Project Wiki.  #libday8

I work as a Reference Librarian at Hackley Public Library.  Among my duties are buying fiction and nonfiction (000's, 200's, 400's, 500's, 800's, and 900's) for the library; weeding the same group; Government Documents; Adult program planning; maintaining the Library's website; keeping up with Social Media; running the Adult Summer Reading Program; and, as they say, other duties as assigned.  My days, to say the least, are not dull.

Here's a breakdown of how my day was spent on Monday:


8:30-9:30 am: Arrived at work and sorted through some of the gift books we've received in the last couple of weeks-sorted them according to which staff member needs to review them and checked to see if any in my area were ones we'd like to keep.  Put the rest aside for our annual booksale.


9:30-10:00 am: Got ready for a shift on the Reference Desk-started the Ref. computer, gathered stuff to work on if it was quiet, chatted a bit with a couple of collegues.


10:00 - 10:30 am:  Dealt with emails  that had come in to the Ref. account-someone wanted to know about Ice Boxes that had been manufactured in the area during the 20's.  Found some pictures and some history of the company, shared the email with the local history department thinking they might have more information.  Looked up books for a book club member


10:30 -10:45 am:  Read through Blog entries and updated  social media (Facebook, Google+, Twitter).  Answered a number of questions about taxforms.


10:45-11:45 am:  Read through my own email, updated  the community calendar.  Ref questions about book values of older books, where to find a place to repair older books, checked to see if we had a specific DVD, explained how to download eAudiobooks.


11:45-12:15 am:  Read through more blogs.  Pointed out the mystery section, more tax forms, looked  up the phone number of an out-of-state PBS station.


12:15 -12:30 am:  Updated the Chamber of Commerce's calendar with our February events, handed out more tax forms, updated our Facebook page with our February events.


12:30-1:00 pm:  Worked on book review to post on our Blog, more tax forms.


1:00 - 2:00 pm: Lunch


2:00-2:20 pm:  Off the ref desk now.  Finished book review and posted it to our Blog and to Facebook.


2:20-3:00 pm:  Updated our New Book list on our Bookletters page, read some email, continuted with the Gift Books.


3:00-3:30 pm:  Gave the afternoon Reference Librarian a break.  Looked up a movie, looked up some books, told someone when  our book group meets, started work on my book order.


3:30-5:00 pm:  Worked on my book order.


That would be a pretty typical Monday!