One of those days

So the fiscal year finally started but there are still no orders to process. A child who went to school with my kids and is waiting for a transplant is having a crisis. She is in my prayers and thoughts of her family and what they must be going through scare me to death.

In typical fashion for him -- today is the last day for one of the department's student workers -- so we all brought snacks for the typical going away extravaganza -- and he is late

Stuck in the back room

I would not mind finding a way to do some local presentations. But at my level I am not involved in any big changes to make presentations about. I also am in a back office that makes it hard for me to become more involved with library projects. I feel like my career is on hold and that it is slowly affecting the rest of my life since I feel unable to clearly decide what to do next at home either

I find it interesting that I can't quite figure out the best way to get MORE involved at MPOW. I'd like to know if they would pay for training and if I can go to ALA but I can't figure out who to ask.

Not rocket science

So I have just been told that at least ordering material is not "Rocket Science". I do not think anything was meant by it but I was somewhat taken aback. I mean really the world will not end if we make a mistake but it also is not as easy as the librarian believe.

Is this the right move

If you leave the library world -- or in my case never really enter it after school -- getting back into it can be difficult. So I wonder if I made the right move taking any position at a library rather than waiting for the correct one. I needed a job and if I stay for enough years my kids could go to school for free -- but there is nothing to do and I don't see a way out. Why do librarians have such a hard time figuring out career moves. I was never one for schmoozing -- I don't even like to sit in the lunch room and eat.

So I wonder what I should do next. Take a class -- and if so which one? Join a group and volunteer? I don't have much time now.

End of fiscal year

This is my first end of fiscal year and a lot of my normal tasks have been "frozen" until the new fiscal year. I am teaching myself excel pivot tables. I still hope to take this opportunity to learn and move up in the library but sometimes it is hard to wait.

Libraries, Life and Everything -- the start

This is my start of a blog for my kids and myself. I'm not much of a writer but the youngest is a budding story teller/poster and wants a place online. I live in the Midwest and I actually like it. I like the wide open space -- I have lived next to mountains and they make me claustrophobic. I have traveled all over but I now live in the same city I was born in.

I have suffered through a surprise lay off recently and joined the work world where I thought I would be after school -- libraries. I am not sure how this will work out but I have rediscovered my love of the concept of collecting and lending and providing material to be borrowed and used for free.