Brentwood Library Internship Week Five

On Monday, I helped set up both the baby story time and the toddler story time. This week, the baby story time was mostly set around sound, so all I had to do was organize the carpet squares for the children to sit on and set out some things that make sound, like eggs full of sand and wooden hoops for them to bang together. After that was over, I picked up all of the sound items and helped to prepare for the toddler story time. For this story time, the theme was “big” and the craft idea was to have large pieces of paper for the children to lie on and draw.  So it was my job to cut pieces of butcher paper that were about four feet long and tape two together, so that there were large squares on which the children could draw. After that, I was able to have a little desk time, which I think I am getting better at. For the first couple of weeks, being on the desk made me really nervous, but I’m starting to learn where everything is and it isn’t as intimidating anymore. The only downside was that I did have to deal with a particularly impatient patron on this day.

Tuesday was a very quiet day, so my supervisor, Charity, sent me to the back office to work on my story time and my toddler tub idea. I finally finished my Farm Animals #1 toddler tub. I wrote up the directions for this particular toddler tub and all I have to do now is post it up on the main library website.

Wednesday was a really fun day! I spent the entire day up in circulation and there was always something to do. The first thing I had to do was organize the books on the checked-in shelves, so that the pages would be able to put them back on the shelves more efficiently.  Next, I was set to work on checking in books that were slid through the return slots, and with that, I had to put a slip in the items when they had a hold on them. After lunch, the delivery man arrived with all of the items that had been ordered from other libraries for our patrons. When all of the items were on carts, it was my job to check everything in, insert a slip with the patron’s name that ordered it, and put them back on the cart in alphabetical order.