A day in the life of a youth librarian...

A Day in the life of a Librarian is a feature I discovered on Abby the Librarian's blog. I love seeing what others do at their own jobs so hopefully this feature doesn't seem too boring to you readers out there!

8:30 AM: Arrive at work. Turn on the lights and computers in the youth area. Make sure the games computers are running okay because I've been having problems with them lately. They are OLD so I'm not surprised.

9:00 AM: A little cataloging! Mostly books on this day because I have a back log of books I have to get out onto the shelves since I got tons of nonfiction books in recently.

10:00 AM: Head into the big meeting room to make sure everything is set up for story time. Have to rearrange a table or two but it's mostly good to go.

10:15 AM: Clean up the displays in the meeting room and put out the name tags for the Wednesday story time kids.

10:30 AM: Story time starts. This week is a transportation theme so we get to talk about trains, cars, tractors, planes, and boats. The kids love it and they really like pretending to be airplanes as we "fly" about the room.

11:20 AM: Story time and craft is over. Cleaning up because I have a class from the local community college coming in.

12:00 PM: The local Lit and Language childcare class from the community college stops by for a lesson on doing a story time, how I choose books, how I allocate my money, and then, a tour of the youth area along with a bit of a scavenger hunt the teacher devised.

1:15 PM: Heading home for lunch. I'm hungry!

2:15 PM: Back from lunch. Hard to find a parking spot because unfortunately they've been working on the parking lot for the library/community center, making it a big mess.

2:30 PM: Register a few more families for my upcoming family pumpkin carving evening on October 20. So far 12 out of 30 open spots are filled but we've been getting more calls each day.

3:00 PM: Ordering a few more wall decals to decorate the children's area: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, and Strawberry Shortcake.

3:15 PM: Find a craft for my bear story time next week. Finally found this craft on Pinterest. I've done puppets too often lately so I needed something else.

4:00 PM: After helping pull some books for a local teacher, I'm back to do more cataloging.

5:00 PM: Heading home! It's been a long and productive day, the best kind in the work week.

And hey, you can see me in Publisher's Weekly (well, their website!) for the new iPad I won last week. I'm the fifth picture down, the girl holding an iPad. Woo!