My new coworkers, who seem pretty great so far, point out the patrons it's important to know: The pee-er, the family who is only allowed to eat in the lobby because they make a huge mess, etc.
Our page's name is Donald McDonald. Poor man.
A woman wants to know the status of her account, so my colleague asks her for her ID. She says "I don't have an ID, so this'll have to do" and hands over an offender card, which is just what it sounds like.
We have a box for raffle entries to win four tickets to Paw Patrol Live. Two sharply-dressed, extremely cool-seeming men around my age come in and get so excited about it--"My nephew loves Paw Patrol! Can I enter more than once!?"
In my new capacity as Children's Librarian, I and the Children's Library Assistant attend a brown bag workshop about using puppets in storytime. This is starting to become real.
Two young teenagers ask for books about slavery. Since they're on the fence age-wise as far as sending them to Juvenile Nonfiction or Adult Nonfiction, I ask how much information they want. The answer: "A lot. We have to do a report!"
The cleaner, who mainly speaks Spanish, notices that the water fountain isn't working. None of my Spanish-speaking coworkers happen to be out at the moment so she and I combine broken English and broken Spanish to pass this info onto our boss. I'd forgotten that "oasis" is the word for water fountain in Spanish!
A tiny gecko falls onto someone's shoulder in one of the study rooms. We commend him for not freaking out, then one of my coworkers catches it in a pencil holder and names it "Overdue." She is practicing making her case for keeping it as a library pet when the Children's LA (my new role model) firmly takes the pencil case from her and releases the gecko back into the wild.
Very important to learn about the "special" patrons!!
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