This week at the library: Spring Break nearly broke us, but we remain standing!

Visiting snakes,
Curious George and Noodle

Programs

• Family Storytime with snakes (Tues & Thurs)

Self-Directed Activities

• Open Storyroom
• Construction Hangout
• Homeschool Hangout
• Daycare field trip
• Craft-o-rama
• Insect scavenger hunt
• Read and Grow
• Reading Explorer

Meetings, Hosted events, etc.

• Friends Book & Bake Sale

Notes

• In short, our already skeletal staff lost some bones this week. I got to do payroll for the first time, which was very exciting. I must have done it right because we all got paid lol. There was weirdness, which usually happens when our director is gone. I went all out and finished weeding the young adult area and my staff put in heroic effort and did all the shifting. I even managed to get it down to only THREE carts of books behind my desk, only one borrowed! There are still empty shelves in weird areas, and the youth area generally looks like a hurricane came through, but it will all settle down eventually!
• What really saved us this week, at least in my department, was that my school colleague was gone last week and so offered to come in for storytime this week! She even sourced some special guests (a teacher with snakes to share) and a great time was had by all 100+ people who crammed into our storyroom. This enabled my staff to jump over and cover gaps in the desk, plus people from other departments who stepped in.
• Oh, and what weirdness you ask? Well, I was at the library at 7:45am for Reasons on Tuesday and shortly before we opened the cook from the community org that uses our kitchen (they work with adults with disabilities) three times a week came in and said she was sorry to add to our load but... me "WHAT NOW?" and she says "I was in the kitchen and I heard a thump and, well, the clock fell off the wall." This is not a small clock. It is, (or was) almost 3ft in diameter and hangs on the wall in our Community Center. It turns out to have been an interesting mix of cheap and quality, i.e. the frame was all plastic (which broke, ripped, and snapped off) but the face was, you guessed it, glass! Which shattered. All over the floor. I hauled away the broken clock, the cook very kindly helped pick up all the large pieces of glass, then we swept the floor. There was nobody in the room that day besides Tax Aide, and I did warn them not to crawl around on the floor and it got vacuumed that night. I assume. Now that I retell the story, I had maybe better check the floor again, although I'm pretty sure anything still there is completely engrained. However, we do have small children in there this coming Monday... oh well.
• The week ended with the HVAC going out again, but thankfully the company came, flipped a switch, and it cooled off almost immediately. Hopefully it's still working next Monday...