Day 25 - April 12, 2007

THURSDAY -- I was running late again. I thought that we had Family Night for HeadStarters but when I called Rulbina told me that everyone was at the Pacific Park Branch. I called the branch to ask if they needed me to come there too, I was told that I should just go to Central to make sure Daisy and Rubina are covered.

When I got to the Central Library, Lyda was still there and she too was told to stay put because it turned out only one family showed up at the Pacific Library. It was spring break for most schools so it turned out only one family was interested in going to the library for Family Night.

Thursdays are mostly quiet in the library to begin with so coupled with Spring Break, the pace was much more sedate for the Children's Room. I helped Lyda count and bundle the bookmarks in groups of 50 for Saturday's awarding events. I got one question from a boy looking for what I thought were "Ricky Ricardo" books. I asked if he wanted a biography and the 7 year old looked at me like "What the heck is this old lady talking about?" He said they are stories. Try as I might, I could not find anything to match my search for "Ricky Ricardo" limited to children's fiction available in Central Library. My thought was "Hmmm, I did not know Ricky Ricardo wrote children's books..." I was getting desperate as the child was already looking at me like he was thinking "you don't know anything!" and no one else was at the desk with me at the time. Finally, Rubina got back and I asked her, "do you know of any Ricky Ricardo books?" She stopped for all of 2 seconds until she laughed saying "RICKY RICOTTA!" Apparently, there is a series called Ricky Ricotta's Giant Robot :o)

One of the weaknesses I have that concerns this internship is my lack of knowledge when it comes to popular kiddie lit. Just when I thought I was getting better with using Horizon, I get hit with what to me is a stumper. I really just need to fine tune my reference interview either that or maybe I need to clean my ears...LOL!