Today I was sitting at my desk at work reflecting on the differences between my job and my work as a volunteer church librarian.
Only yesterday I finally finished up making the subject heading signs for the church library – made up of your basic, everyday white cardboard and black ink. And, quite frankly, I’m ecstatic about having it done. And when I get my new bookshelves up I’m going to be simply over the moon. No online catalogue for this library – yet. With only 2700 items I’m not altogether sure that it’s necessary at the moment. One step at a time people, one step at a time.
In the meantime, my day job absolutely revolves around the Internet. Since I was hired to be some sort of online research guru, I’m expected to be up to date on not only the latest trends in 2.0, but also how they work and their degree of usefulness.
It seems strange to me now that I was worried when I took this job that I wouldn’t be able to stay current with the programs and applications that many of my colleagues were using in their libraries. Now I deal with them on a daily basis. And now it’s the library that I work at in my free time that is teaching me more of the basics of running a library such as customer service, collection development weeding and marketing. Weird how things sometimes work out!
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