Saw the man who printed the huge document. Now 100% convinced he's not going to pay for it. Will put it in the recycling or turn it over to my industrious colleagues who make and use scratch paper.
The printer that spits out public internet computer reservations stopped working. This creates havoc as nobody remembers which computer they were assigned, and they all want to hop onto the most recently vacated one. Had to look up a dozen reservations by user's library card number to get things straightened out, once I got the printer working again. A good swift thunking helped.
Helped create an email account and facebook account for a woman today. The deeper into the process we went, the more certain I became that she's 95% illiterate. Need to figure out the local resources for adult literacy. We have all kinds of information about other programs, but I've missed the important one, apparently. Will have to talk to a colleague tomorrow.
Only other interesting one was someone who called to ask about the indexes for a huge reference book series we're thinking about withdrawing. He knew the span of dates for the entire series we've collected, and which volumes had individual indexes in their backs. He wanted to know about the dates of the overall indexes, and how they were formatted. When I mentioned the call to a colleague, she knew exactly who it was who had called. We pretty much agreed that the caller was the one and only person interested in this huge multi-volume set. I guess it's true that one man's treasure is a weeding reference librarian's trash.
Or something to that effect.
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No ongoing counts noted in the busy-ness.
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