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Work: Part One

In my last post I told you that a full time job had found me. I belong to a book club and we were having our get together. I was also buying a washer and dryer from some friends. I had planned on picking them up before book club. When I got to my friends to pick them up the where running a bit behind. By the time I had got the washer and dryer to my place I was running very late. I ended up being an hour an a half late for book club and I even called to make sure they were still there. I ended up sitting across from a women I think I meet before but hadn't talk too. This time we ended up talking and there were something that we had in common. At the end of the evening as we were all leaving she asked if any knew a library clerk looking for work. Well I raised my hand and everyone else pointed at me. We exchanged numbers and I heard from a few days late to interview. After waiting for the school district to caught up I got the call from HR. I was to start my full time job on the first day of school. 

I started the first day of school bright and early. The one advantage I have at this school it's the sister school of the one I came from, they are the same general floor plan. There are some internal changes but nothing that changes the floor plan. They do have there classes and other program in a different room from what I have gotten use to, so some days it's getting lost in a floor plan I know. 

It is a Duel language campus  partly because we have more Spanish speakers than English speakers. This has made me brush up on my Spanish.  I am doing all my bulletin boards in English and Spanish. I am also working on non-fiction markers that are English and Spanish. When I have a child looking blankly when I ask their name, I ask in Spanish and I get a full name.

I am enjoying the job. There is a lot of work. The collection hasn't had any love in some time and books that need help seem to find me. The librarian wanted spine labels updated and so I thought this would be a good way to start with the collection. It gave me a chance to see what the library has and see what books may need help. Now the only supplies I had was book glue, easy bind and contact paper. I didn't have spine labels but I had some other labels and made them work. I have managed to make it thru the Everybody and the Fiction sections. I have started the Spanish and hope to have that done this week. I have glued a lot of books, stared to tape a few (after I got a roll of book tape from an other library) and have a stack waiting for mylar. I have even started a stack to go to bindery. 

I am going to leave off there for now. This post is labeled "Work: Part One"

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