Make a mental note: do NOT try to drive into a town with limited road access when there is a Homecoming Parade planned. You can't get there from here! So since the town where I'm doing the practicum basically closed town for the parade, it was a bit of a hike to put in hours today once I finally located a place to stash my car -- I did ask the homeowner if it was ok if I parked in front of his house. Fortuitously he said yes. My 15 minute drive took about 1 1/2 hours. (*sigh*; ommmmmm!)
The morning was quiet and uneventful in the library. Only a few requests for holds. Everyone was at the parade and not at the library...and they couldn't have gotten to the library if they'd wanted to except on foot, anyway.
The afternoon was delightfully busy with reference questions: about science fair kinds of presentations about weather and fruit and how it reacts to different kinds of packaging; a delightful lady whose physician told her to get a dvd on Pilates so she can straighten out her back (after 40 years of nursing - yikes!). A gentleman was in from Texas doing genealogical research on a local cemetary so the staff genealogy/local history expert was able to supply all sorts of information for him. He said thank-you, and left. Then he came back again. This scenario repeated itself several times. Toward the end of the day, we all just smiled at each other as he returned -- again. Oh, and he left happy with the information. A lady was interested in information about the Plainfield, IL tornado in 1990 but was not satisfied with the info/pictures online. This library had what she wanted but the age of the papers (original from 1990) also did not provide adequate pictures. Another lady was interested in restaurant tipping etiquette. Diverse questions.
A project to help the local history area of the library was the main thrust of my day. The high school yearbooks are being indexed and so an Access program was created that allows there to be lists of each person's name along with the year of the annual they appear in and the page number. I lost track after about 550 entries today. It was fun. I actually know some of the people in the 50+ year old yearbooks.... scary, huh! Isn't it amazing how ridiculous we looked between the ages of 8 and 18 at that time?!? Especially 50 years ago...except most of you don't remember that time frame. I do.
Although I didn't locate any earthshatteringly interesting web sites today, it was a fun day. And beyond that, the library was celebrating Banned Books Week, always one of my favorite weeks of the year!!!! I read banned books! I hope you do, too.
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