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silveradeptIn addition to All the things I have learned before, I present some new things that I have learned in my first month of work.
1) Finding the chair in back that works well as a napping chair is essential for when the nap is needed.
2) A side effect of learning cooking technique is that your co-workers compliment the aroma of your food.
3) Of all the foods available at a nice lunch during a meeting, the chocolate will be the most popular by far.
4) I am a good luck charm, it appears. If in my area of influence, pages can find things that they otherwise have
difficulty with or missed the first time. In such a sense, perhaps it is my superpower in life to make other people look good.
5) It is confusing to one’s co-workers that a person who can get up in front of three hundred librarians and do improv with a troupe is nervous about performing stories in front of fifteen children.
6) The real strengths of an apprenticeship appear not in the broad strokes, but in filling in the details that only come with knowing one’s collection and practices intimately.
7) Working in a library means that one only gets farther behind on “books I shoud read”.
8) One should not be surprised when one’s life experience turns out to be helpful in answering questions and directing users. Nor should one be surprised when gambits of ingenuity and imagination pay excellent dividends.
9) The simplest revelation is that most people know what they want, but they don’t know how to find it. And they’re too afraid to disturb you, despite it being a large part of what you get paid to do.
10) To make mention of something that may be helpful is to volunteer to see it through. To remind someone that something needs doing is to volunteer to do it. With rare exceptions, then, remind people of things that must be done when you are either busy with something else or have the time to devote to doing whatever it is you’re reminding them of.
11) The simpler it looks to implement, the larger amount of time, effort, and people it will potentially involve.
12) Working in a library develops your ability to sense other people. This can be put to interesting uses, like stopping before an intersection of shelves to let a child go zipping past before proceeding.
13) Despite all the advances the library has done to promote itself as something other than a place of dusty tomes and silence, there are some people who miss the memorandum. So much so that they will shush you, and then ask you to speak quieter while they read a newspaper right next to you, and then tell you it’s “not the point” when you point out there is a designated “quiet zone” in the place.
1) Finding the chair in back that works well as a napping chair is essential for when the nap is needed.
2) A side effect of learning cooking technique is that your co-workers compliment the aroma of your food.
3) Of all the foods available at a nice lunch during a meeting, the chocolate will be the most popular by far.
4) I am a good luck charm, it appears. If in my area of influence, pages can find things that they otherwise have
difficulty with or missed the first time. In such a sense, perhaps it is my superpower in life to make other people look good.
5) It is confusing to one’s co-workers that a person who can get up in front of three hundred librarians and do improv with a troupe is nervous about performing stories in front of fifteen children.
6) The real strengths of an apprenticeship appear not in the broad strokes, but in filling in the details that only come with knowing one’s collection and practices intimately.
7) Working in a library means that one only gets farther behind on “books I shoud read”.
8) One should not be surprised when one’s life experience turns out to be helpful in answering questions and directing users. Nor should one be surprised when gambits of ingenuity and imagination pay excellent dividends.
9) The simplest revelation is that most people know what they want, but they don’t know how to find it. And they’re too afraid to disturb you, despite it being a large part of what you get paid to do.
10) To make mention of something that may be helpful is to volunteer to see it through. To remind someone that something needs doing is to volunteer to do it. With rare exceptions, then, remind people of things that must be done when you are either busy with something else or have the time to devote to doing whatever it is you’re reminding them of.
11) The simpler it looks to implement, the larger amount of time, effort, and people it will potentially involve.
12) Working in a library develops your ability to sense other people. This can be put to interesting uses, like stopping before an intersection of shelves to let a child go zipping past before proceeding.
13) Despite all the advances the library has done to promote itself as something other than a place of dusty tomes and silence, there are some people who miss the memorandum. So much so that they will shush you, and then ask you to speak quieter while they read a newspaper right next to you, and then tell you it’s “not the point” when you point out there is a designated “quiet zone” in the place.
