I’m currently afflicted by a throat infection I seem to pick up
every three to five years or so. The first time I got it, I was in college and
the shrugging, probably underpaid, college clinic doctor was of little help.
Fast forward almost two decades and the professional, attentive doctor at my
HMO too was of little help, but at least he smiled and did not make me answer
too many questions. Honey, salt water, silence – that’s about it.
So in the quiet space (well, quiet if you discount my coughing
followed by a low moan of pain), I find myself in need of a work related
project. I have been meaning to start a library blog at some point, so here we
go. I do not imagine that I have anything unique, let alone interesting, to
say, but eh, a quick google shows that has not stopped anyone from blogging at
any time before.
I am currently the Head of Circulation for the Peabody Institute
of Danvers. This means I run the circulation desk (insomuch that any circ desk
is actually run) and a bunch of behind the scenes library activities. Access
Services is not the most thrilling wing of library science, so I probably won’t
touch on that much (This is a lie). I’ve been running service desks like this
one for more than a decade now, although this is my first public library experience
– I’ve been a hoity academic type previously. I’m still working on a tight five
for my ‘public libraries be all like this and academic libraries be all like
that’ routine, so I’ll spare you the details of the switch for the moment.
One new thing, however, is that I’m now in a library that not
only carries fiction, but I seem to be the one in charge of buying it. My
previous collection development experience can be pretty much summed up with “Is
this book required for a class taught at this University? Yes? Two copies,
please.” so I’m finding the role of taste maker rather daunting. That is, I
think, what this blog will be about.
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