It
has been both quiet and busy today at the library I work at. This is a
change from a December that ambled along in a seasonally quiet way. The
library was sleepy all through the holidays. Now, with the new year we start to wake up a
bit. Lines form up suddenly at the front desk of the library, and
creating an on-the-spot quirky anthology of the history of comic
literature for an interested patron is no longer feasible.
Ah well, we don't have any of those books anyway.
None of them were really all that funny.
And could you please step aside so I could register each member of this family of 17 for library cards?
But
I'm not complaining, really. In the old days around here we used to
work so much harder. I like to regale my modern era co-workers with
stories about the bad old days, and often I wonder how I could stand it.
No Internet, no reference work, and hands on checking in and checking
out of every single item, all while staffing slowly decreased and
circulation bumped up ten or 15 percent every year.
But I'm not complaining.
I always liked it here okay.
You see, as far as work goes, well, 90 percent of the effort is just being here. The rest takes care of itself.
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