Things I have learned, part R...

1. Most homeless shelters keep regular weekday business hours.
2. Even more interestingly, housing assistance programs expect you to know you're going to be homeless and that you will have time to do an intake interview and wait for the results.
3. The Organization is almost myopically focused on the building as the point of service for the library. This is a bug.
4. Programming offerings from The Organization do not reflect the philosophy of what kinds of questions we expect - we're great at "get me started", but "get me unstuck" and "keep me interested" have tumbleweeds running through their towns.
5. There are times where being the singular guy in a cohort full of women is interesting.
6. Some part of finding really awesome people is being brave enough to tell them they're awesome.
7. Books of tales from the stacks sell
8. My coworkers occasionally do not give a damn about my opinion...on things that affect me and that I have gone through before.
9. The presence of carts in the youth section of our open floor area makes one co-worker feel claustrophobic. I learned this from the manager, who was the only person she told.
10. Our ILS can't do simple-seeming queries, like "I want books that our branch has, that another branch does not, that are currently checked in." The first two it can handle, but the third it cannot, due to the separation between "bibliographic records" (where one can do global comparisons) and their associated "item records" (which are location-specific and carry data about circulation status.
11. The ability to look at someone else's code (properly commented, or at least logically-designed) and be able to adapt it to suit your own purposes is not an inborn talent, no matter how natural it feels to me.
12. I want to be the hero, oh so much.
13. I also want to stop being the hero at times. The universe, in its infinite wisdom, resolved the paradox by not giving me opportunities to be the hero, because being the hero is not a thing you can stop easily.
14. Not having enough money to effortlessly pay all the bills makes me feel like a failure and stresses me out like whoa.
15. Parents ignore signs, closed doors, and lack of lighting when they think it's time for story time.
16. I am either blessed with suck with regard to programming at my branch, or am a failure at that particular part of my job. (Other parts of my job I am good at, and receive feedback stating such in the form of attendance, laughter, and happy users.)
17. The previous point is still correct, but inaccurate - programming that doesn't involve the librarian is actually quite popular.
18. Further research indicates target audience is difficult to corral, because they are already super-scheduled.
19. Significant Other used See Something, Say Something. Apparently, it's super-effective.
20. if there are three empty spaces and one full at the help desk, someone will inevitably go to one of the empty spaces...and then expect you to come over and help them, rather than adjust themselves to the place with the actual person.
21. Existential crisis still sucks.
22. The Organization failed to offer a good question in a survey about core services.
23. The want us to tell them what we think can be safely cut or made low-priority. We are going to laugh, because while budgets are a pain, the public library needs to expand, not contract.