Luckily I have a trusty Google Calendar to remind me what I’ve done so I can write blog posts later. 5/30 – Chapter 9: Jen and I went to Foundation Center training. The Foundation Center is an organization that helps individuals and non-profit groups find grants (that is, free money). In addition to the organization’s […]
Category: Librarianship
Chapter 8
Shadowed on the floor and in AV with Jen, then discussed programming and readers’ advisory with Carole. Programming can be either active or passive. Active programming is formal programs, where people come into the library specifically for the program. Passive programming takes the form of book lists, displays and other signs around the library, which […]
Chapter 6 & 7
Forgot to post an update on Friday. It was a pretty standard day: combination of AV, phones and floor. Today, I talked to two librarians about their specific areas and shadowed the ASD director. One specific area was Outreach. ‘Outreach’ is twofold: providing books and audiobooks to assisted living and nursing homes in the area […]
Chapter 5
I shadowed all three facets of Adult Services today – on the floor, on phones and in the AV room. Being on the floor is what everyone thinks about when they hear ‘reference librarian’: waiting for patrons’ questions behind a desk. Our hour on the floor was pretty slow – most of the patrons today […]
Chapter 4
I finally met my supervisor! She’s going be a great person to work with. Jen is in charge of fiction selection, so we went over that process. Fiction selection involves standing orders for popular authors as well as selecting books based on reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Kirkus. We also discussed the maintenance of […]
Chapter Three: Library Wizard Apprentice
The title of this particular blog post comes from a comment from today. Technically, my internship at the library is an “apprenticeship”. When I told that to one of the ASD people today, he thought it sounded like I was a wizard’s apprentice. And thus, “Library Wizard Apprentice” was born. Anyway, orientation is finally done. […]
Chapter Two
More orientation today. We covered intellectual freedom, harassment in the workplace, and customer service. I got a name tag too! Harassment in the workplace and customer service are pretty self-explanatory, but I’ll discuss intellectual freedom below, as it’s a topic I find interesting. Intellectual freedom essentially means that library patrons should have access to whatever […]
Chapter One
My first day at the Heights Library began with New Employee Orientation at 8:30 this morning. There were three other people in my orientation session – two new Associates in Adult Services (ASD) and a Shipping Associate. We met the Director and Deputy Director, who discussed the library’s history, funding and strategic planning. After that, […]
T Minus One Week
I spoke with the Heights Library’s Training and Staff Development Manager today to finalize the details of my internship. That means I have more information to share! I’ll be at the library about 10 hours a week. We’re still working out exactly how long the internship will be. As I said in my last post, my […]
Autobiography
The semester is wrapping up and I’ll be starting my internship at the Height Libraries in a week and a half! But who the hell is this ‘librarian-in-training’? And what is this internship thing? That’s me! My name is Ann. I’m a 21-year-old junior (almost rising senior) at Earlham College in Richmond, IN. I’m (finally […]