My second day at the Douglass Branch went really well. I received my official Visitor's badge today, so I looked more official, not just like some random person who was sitting around observing everyone. I met some more of the staff members today, including Ryan, who drives the bookmobile and the van for homebound runs. Ryan looked really familiar to me, and we both realized it was because we had actually had a class together here at Wayne State! So that was really cool.
After I got settled in, I observed one of the librarians, Tom, as he sorted through gift books in order to see if there were any worth keeping. He was also on the reference desk at the time, so I got to help him as he answered a reference question for a patron. After a bit, Dori, the librarian for the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped called me over to start on my project of assigning subject headings to books so that the books can be searched by subject within the computer system. That took up the majority of the rest of my day. Dori said I did a great job with the subject headings for my first time, but some of the books were difficult to pin down a subject for. A lot of the non-fiction books had multiple subjects, and I had to make sure that I covered all of them and didn't miss anything.
Tomorrow, my supervisor, Laurie, is taking me over to the Main Branch of DPL to meet with the Children's and Teen Librarians over there. I will be working with them at the Main Branch every Friday from now on. I will hopefully be observing a story time that has been scheduled for tomorrow morning, so that will be a great experience, I think!
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