TUESDAY -- Today was quite uneventful. Just the regulars doing their homework and some middle-schoolers doing research on papers on famous reformers throughout American history. My niece Katrina was one of them. Katrina is an 8th grader and she has been going to the library with me since yesterday. Her paper is about Harriet Tubman so that I now know all about the "Black Moses."
There were many patrons in the library today but although they were there, they seemed to have been doing their own thing that we did not get that many reference questions. I got asked for dictionaries and also books on Horace Mann, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Dorothea Dix, frogs, sloths, drawing and picture books with dealing with disability to be read to pre-schoolers. I was also asked by Vahe, one of the regulars to show him how to make an origami crane.
Vahe is one of those kids who is borderline trouble. He's a nice kid but there are times when you almost want to yell at him. He likes hearing his cellphone ring and we always have to remind him to put it on silent/vibrate. He would ask all sorts of questions then decide he does not need the information. For example, yesterday, he wanted to know the standard size of the U.S. flag. I started looking up the information by checking the encyclopedias and then he goes on saying that his teacher does not want that information after all. He then proceeded to ask if I ever had to kick out a kid out of the library and I told him "No! Do you want to be the first?" :o)
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