"A usual day at the library..."

Not much to report on my end. I had school this last weekend and learned about library collection development - in other words: collecting materials(books, CD's, DVD's, magazines, etc.) for your library. It's not so easy as it would sound - just because you have to write out a policy giving you some sort of standards or you might have to collect porn or something else horrible. Anyway, that's the short of it. My teacher, who is from Cedar City, told us a funny story about a librarian who was asked a question: "Where can I get a book about Jesus?". Well, without questioning him further, she took him to the religion section and pointed a some good books to look at and then returned to her desk. Well, the patron came back and said, "Well, I appreciate what you showed me about Jesus, but I wanted books on cheese!". (hehe) It just shows that librarians need to question further before finding books for them!

Oh, I have to tell you something that happened last night at the downtown library. The security guards office is next to our check-in stations. So, I'm checking in some books when I hear, then see, the two cops escorting a guy who is talking loudly and screaming profanities. Who knows what was happening to get him all upset. Right before they took him inside the office he started saying, "Hiel Hitler!". We were all trying not to stare, but were shocked just the same. We could hear him continue to yell and scream for some time and finally he calmed down and was allowed to leave the library. The cops came by afterwards and told us that he was "totally wasted" and he hated Germans, how is that relevant?, and that he wanted to go to jail. He was most likely homeless. The cop said they didn't have enough to arrest the guy, and he wouldn't go to jail just because he wanted to. Well, we thought we were done, but then we hear screaming out front. He had come back! He was returning some books at the circulation desk and started getting upset again. They took his library card away, revoked his Internet privileges and put a note on his account for further reference. Well, my goodness! My boss was joking, "A usual day at the library..."

So, I just finished my training to become a substitute circulation worker for the county libraries, and so now I can sub at all the libraries around the valley. I already have two assignments this week, one in Draper and one in South Jordan. This will be good because it can bring in some more money, which I desperately need, and also get my face out there just in case they want to hire me full time or something. I did have an interview at the Sandy library last week and I'm still waiting on their results. Did I already tell you this? Well, the problem that I realized after was that it has the same hours that I usually work at the city library. I called Dad right afterward and got his advice, or just talked it out with his help. I would most likely quit the city job. The pros of the Sandy job were: 1)It would give me a few more hours, 2) I wouldn't have to work on Sundays, 3) It would give me insurance benefits. The only con is that it's all the way out in Sandy, but that's ok. So, now I'm waiting to hear back and am wondering what will happen in the next few weeks.