Library Day in the Life-Thursday

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 Thursday:

8:30 am Set up for computer class, looked at newly donated books, most were not in good enough condition to keep so they will go in our booksale that is scheduled for April.  Chatted  with colleagues

9:30 am  Updated the calendars we keep for our events -one on our website, our google calendar, and bookletters.  The google calendar also has community events.  Updated a couple of the webpages.  Added upcoming programs through May, and recurring events for the year on the website calendar.  Did a bit on the bookletters calendar, but still have a bunch to do.


12:05 Lunch


1:00 pm Reference Shift
  Tel-Tax form questions
  Tel-Looking for local book appraisers, unfortunately they are all on the east side of the state
   DVD lookup 
   Book lookup on cowboy language
   Book lookup-no one  in our cooperative owned it so I explained how to use MeL, the statewide catalog, and put the book on hold
   Updated upcoming events for the newsletter
   Put patron request on book order for March
   Updated our database of addresses for the newsletter
   Ran a list of the new items we received in January.  We post the entire list online in an excel spreadsheet, and feature the new fiction in a Bookletters weekly newsletter
   Found two books about hopping freight trains that we owned, and put another one on hold from another library
   Tel:  Lottery results
   Tel:  Question about how to access the newspaper archives from the Muskegon Area District Library's website (pretty much the same way you do it from ours)
   Tel:  Tax forms
   Tel:  Another newspaper archive question (article is not complete in the archive, sigh)
   Updated web and bookletters with new items
   Posted new books to social media
   Sent email to staff to remind them to let me know what they'd read recently for our Staff Picks newsletter
3:05 Break!


3:25 pm  Updated bookmarks with February events and printed a bunch off
3:30 pm  Read Ref email
    Tel:  Tax forms
    Looked up movie
    Added an organization to the webpage we keep of area organizations
3:40 pm Read Ref Blogs
   Tel:  put 2 books on hold
   updated social media
3:55 Read my email
    Wrote down DVD purchase request for a patron
    Updated Exhibits webpage
    Looked up a call number, then checked the shelves when the patron couldn't find it.  I couldn't either, so we requested it from another library
    Law question on where to get transcripts from the Federal District Court (apparently through Pacer--patron will see about getting an account)
    Put a book on hold
    Tel:  do we take old encyclopedias?  Not for the collection, but we'll put them in the book sale
    Tel:  look up a book
    Posted book video on blog
4:45 pm  collated computer class surveys
   DVD look up
5:00 pm Library closes.