A few items that didn't make it...
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My library has been closed for about a week now due to a pipe burst. Today was the first time I've been out there since it happened. It first happened when I was in Toronto, then Thursday evening the assistant director called me and asked if I wanted to work at another branch through the weekend. As I told my supervisor in an email, "I just go where they tell me to." Actually I was pretty happy not to have my hours cut since I have taken a lot of time off to travel this month.
There's a few pictures of what I came to work to today, only crappy camera phone quality though. We spent most of the day putting books back on shelves. I think they moved them in order to raise the shelving to suck out the water or something. I really don't know.
It also sounds like I got the cushy deal this weekend, some of my co-workers were the ones that had to move the books off the shelves. They also went to another branch that is opening from renovations soon to unpack boxes. They were there today putting the books back on the shelves, one of them said, "I'm really starting to hate books." I don't blame them. I now appreciate the opportunity I had to play reference librarian for the weekend, even if it wasn't the most exciting thing in the world.
We're planning to be open by Thursday. I'm back in tomorrow to help get things ready to open the library. It's not so bad, at least I get to hang out with my cool co-workers. Based on the number of phone calls we got today, I think we're going to be slammed when we finally open. I don't work Thursdays but I'm sure Friday, when I do work, will be equally busy.
