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Today at my job we had the first meeting I've ever sat in on. I've been here over three months now, and in that time, we've never needed to have a meeting until today. What with the budget uncertainties, and a new library director starting on Monday, to say nothing of the thousands of volumes being sent from out library to a storage facility and the mass cancellations of serials, it seems like the time when something momentous would come up and we'd need to have a meeting, right? Yeah. We had a meeting today.
About book carts.
Yep. Book carts. Those little three-tier things that we roll the books around on. See, Shelver Dude - who doesn't do all that much shelving himself, but rides herd on the relevant students - wanted to know which of all the carts belonged to who and where they should be stored now that he's streamlined the sorting process to require fewer of them. He was very eager for us to make decisions about this, and was last seen running around labeling carts with a permanent marker. Also, Shelver Dude apparently wanted his chance to snipe at Circ Guy - who is fun and cool and, unlike Shelver Dude, has never attempted to make me drink coffee with him - in front of everyone, because Circ Guy had impinged on his territory by briefly arranging every book in the sorting room in exact call number order without emailing Shelver Dude to say he'd done so.
All of it made even more riveting by my boss occasionally piping up to say something - god only knows what she was talking about, because she doesn't finish sentences, and sometimes doesn't seem to be finishing words - and Shelver Dude making inappropriately extended eye contact, and me having a coughing fit and being unable to escape to get anything to drink. So, my conclusion, based on a single data point: meetings suck, people.
ETA: I've officially been working in libraries too long (or just long enough, whichever) - we just got in four back issues of the Hydrobiological Journal, which we've had sitting incomplete in current journals since I got hired, and since my coworker got hired, and I flipped out and jumped up and dashed out into the journals room to pull the volumes. But it's so great! The backordered issues of Hydrobiological Journal came in! My faith in humanity is restored!
About book carts.
Yep. Book carts. Those little three-tier things that we roll the books around on. See, Shelver Dude - who doesn't do all that much shelving himself, but rides herd on the relevant students - wanted to know which of all the carts belonged to who and where they should be stored now that he's streamlined the sorting process to require fewer of them. He was very eager for us to make decisions about this, and was last seen running around labeling carts with a permanent marker. Also, Shelver Dude apparently wanted his chance to snipe at Circ Guy - who is fun and cool and, unlike Shelver Dude, has never attempted to make me drink coffee with him - in front of everyone, because Circ Guy had impinged on his territory by briefly arranging every book in the sorting room in exact call number order without emailing Shelver Dude to say he'd done so.
All of it made even more riveting by my boss occasionally piping up to say something - god only knows what she was talking about, because she doesn't finish sentences, and sometimes doesn't seem to be finishing words - and Shelver Dude making inappropriately extended eye contact, and me having a coughing fit and being unable to escape to get anything to drink. So, my conclusion, based on a single data point: meetings suck, people.
ETA: I've officially been working in libraries too long (or just long enough, whichever) - we just got in four back issues of the Hydrobiological Journal, which we've had sitting incomplete in current journals since I got hired, and since my coworker got hired, and I flipped out and jumped up and dashed out into the journals room to pull the volumes. But it's so great! The backordered issues of Hydrobiological Journal came in! My faith in humanity is restored!