So, what do I actually DO all day?
By Rocketj1
@rocketj1 (6955)
United States
April 29, 2016 10:43pm CST
As some of you may remember about me, I work at a library. I started out mainly dealing with circulation and inter-library loan duties. This includes many things, by the way: New subscription cards, faxes, copies, a myriad of public access computer issues, used book sales, overdue notices, shelf reading , weeding, inventory, packaging and processing inter-library loans, etc.
A few month back, an employee left us and several of her duties were divided among those of us who remained. I was given the job of taking care of our social media presence. I also oversee our adult coloring events and help create topical displays. I'm now in charge of our online book club on goodreads.com.
I'm really enjoying my extra duties. What a blessing to also get a little extra pay!
So, with all these things to do, I'm always stumped with a reply to those who say things to me like: "Wow! I'd love to work at the library! It must be so calm and quiet there" or "Do people even read books anymore? What do you do all day?" or "Must be nice to work somewhere where you could just read all day" (I've NEVER cracked a book to read on the job, by the way) or "So, do you just check books in and out all day?"
Got any snappy comebacks for me?
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Jun 16
I worked as a page for years in the tustin ca libraryh and the one thing that always g ot me was the guestiom ?Do you work here? Now what the devil did they think I was doing shelving books and media if I did not work there lokl and the other was what time is it thney are standing wity a huge wall mou nted clock up over their heads and asking me the time. also I was asked if I rfead a lot while I was at worlk no I worked at wprl i did not read
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@jndlponti (2402)
• Philippines
30 Apr 16
Wow... fascinated with what you do all day. Good that you have that patient. I could never be a librarian. I don't have the skill. I could get patient or I couldn't be put in my chair for a couple of hours.
I salute people like you.
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