I’m shifting over to weekly updates, for the sake of longer posts and convenience.
Chapter 12:
Last Monday, I was back at UH again for a children’s program called Timewarp Archaeology. There were activities for the six inhabited continents (sorry, Antarctica). The kids crawled through a ‘time machine’ to enter the room. I helped select books to be displayed on each of the tables as well as supervising the kids. Unfortunately, only one of the four kids registered for the program showed up, though Reference sent down two siblings who just happened to be in the library at the time of the program. While the turnout was a little disappointing, it was a good experience.
Chapter 13:
I was back at Lee on Tuesday. I shadowed in the children’s room and helped sign a lot of people up for the library’s summer reading program. After that, both my mom and I attended a program on the future of libraries, run by the library’s Director and Assistant Director. It was interesting to hear their visions of the future for libraries and the Heights Library specifically. Libraries are becoming community spaces as well as places that house books. And books (despite the advent of eBooks and eReaders) are definitely not going anywhere! As a future librarian, it was reassuring to hear that my chosen career path won’t be disappearing anytime soon.
Chapter 14:
On Saturday, I was at a different branch. The Noble Neighborhood Library was built in 1937 and was just renovated two years ago. It’s a beautiful space. I spent some time at Reference, where I talked with the Heights’ resident horror readers’ advisor. We talked about eBooks and their convenience as well as blogging about books. He recommended a new service similar to GoodReads called Riffle. After about an hour at Reference, I headed outside for World Wide Knit in Public Day. Matt, one of the library’s IT guys, is an awesome guitarist and played while we knitted. Afterwards, I spent helped stuff folders for summer reading, signed a few families up for summer reading and reorganized and re-alphabetized the children’s DVDs.