TUESDAY -- Although Cecile is still on Jury Duty, I was not able to get to the Children's Room until 6pm. I had too many things to do at the firm what with the month coming to an end. I got to the desk and started working away on my pathfinder. My California Indians pathfinder was shaping up well. I was able to include most of the books we had in the library available for check-out and also the books at the reference desk. Tomorrow, I will work on finding useful websites that users can link to.
I got to do the usual tasks of clearing up the computer room every half hour and in doing so, I had to help an 8th grader save her work on disk. Actually we had to call the computer guy to bring us a flash drive because her project was too big to save on disk. I told her that she can then email her project to herself since she cannot take the flash drive home with her. I was grateful the nothing went awry with the saving of the work because she did a great job with the slides she had to present for her Spanish class.
Once again, I had to help Shant with cutting paper while he was in front of me asking the weirdest questions and sharing the funniest information about people he knew. He asked me if I had been mean to anyone in the library yet and I told him that I have not had the chance to do so...yet. He then went on to tell me how he is an actor and wants to be famous someday. He jumps from one topic to the next. While glueing the cut paper on his homework, he proceeded telling me that his teacher's name is JLo. For all that Shant is all over the place, we love having him around. He may be talkative but he is smart and is very polite. His mother came to pick him up and we told her what a joy it is to have Shant come to the library almost everyday.
After Shant left, I helped a girl look for books about housetraining a puppy. I had fun doing this because I realized how I seem to have just easily slipped into the role of reference librarian as I was helping this girl. Whereas over a month ago, I get so nervous talking to patrons, now it seemed so natural that while I am looking for books in the catalog, I was conversing with the patron, asking the girl what kind of dog she had and how old it was. I found her a couple of books she could check out and she was very happy about the great information we found.
Happy as I was with the realization, I started feeling sad again about the internship coming to an end. It seems that just as I am getting comfortable about my role as a librarian, I have to accept that my 150 hours are almost up and I will have to go back to writing my term papers and reading school books. Not too happy about this :o( but there's always light at the end of the tunnel since I am to graduate soon. I have to get more of my G grades completed so I could put in my application to work as a part-time librarian. Eyes on the prize as my adviser always tells me when I feel down about my plight...eyes on the prize!
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