Tuesday, August 14, 2012

I'm a bit late :P

So as Samantha said in an earlier post, she asked us a couple of weeks ago to write about something we never expected to happen when we came to work for Vccaps. In all truth I was a bit late, but I did think of some of the strange stories of things that happened here at the library, whether they happened to me or not. So here are a few of the ones I've written ;


Searching, Searching…
            I love scavenger hunts. Even if I’m not participating in them they are so much just to watch! I got to experience this, not too long ago, when a group of tourists came in to the library one day. At first I actually didn’t notice them, I was working at my desk and saw Samantha had taken care of them. However, I heard Samantha tell them they could use the computers for their search and I got up to explain to them how to use the computers. To, a little bit my surprise, they refused and insisted on having a book. The reason this surprised me was that most people would have used the computer to find what they were searching for. So, once Samantha began to search again for a book she may have missed and I, because I found this interesting, came over to see if I was able to help. Between Samantha and the people they told me that they needed some information on the war of 1812, but the rules said it was illegal for them to use computers. So I suggested to Samantha that there might be some information in a children’s historical fiction book and waited. Soon she found one that we had in at the library and off we went in search of it. We soon found it and showed it to the people in hopes that it might work for the type of information they needed. They said it was good, but then asked if they could make a copy of the back of the book. So I showed them the scanner and scanned and copied the back of the book for them.  I then brought over the page, only to find that they were, what looked like searching through the penny jar! Completely surprised, I found out from Samantha that they were apparently searching for a 1952 coin, which we discovered, is extremely hard to find. So we spent the next few minutes looking for a coin, and finally found one. Off they went on their way and soon returned to replace a few of the pennies they took from our penny jar! I never expected that to happen when I started work.

FIRE!!!
            This is an unexpected happening from my first summer working for Vccaps. I had been working quietly at the desk, a normal day basically. All of a sudden there was a blaring noise that was almost too loud to speak over! Freaked out and wondering what the noise was I asked Kate “What is that?!?” Kate told me “That’s the fire alarm. There must be a fire somewhere, don’t worry it’ll stop soon.” So I sat there, and kind of laughed at myself for not realizing what it was, and waited for it to stop. Needless to say I no longer freak out when the alarm goes off and it was most definitely one of my first unexpected happenings.

Fish Tales
            This unexpected happening actually has nothing to with patrons, or even computers, but it is none the less interesting. Kate got a call not too long ago about a fish tank, and yes, I said fish tank. The person calling told Kate that they had a 10 gallon fish tank with fish, that they wished to give away and they thought it would have a good home at the library. So Kate told them she would have to ask her supervisor first, but if they called back she would have an answer. So, Kate proceeded to call her supervisor and asked about the fish tank. Now, we happily are receiving a fish tank to add to the teen area. I spent the morning helping Kate to figure out where all the reference books would go and where the games would go. This way, if the tank breaks, which I pray it won’t,  no books will get damaged by being underneath it. This I definitely didn’t expect to happen, but I’m glad it did.


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