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Learning Objectives for Carmichael

My CAR L.O.s were:

learn tasks & responsibilities similar to that of a youth services/teen librarian by working through a task list created by supervisor & assisting with programs

learn & become familiar with YALSA standards for maintaining a teen space in a library by reading through YALSA’s guidelines and doing assessments of the current teen space(s)

Most of the things I did during my internship at CAR were items on the list created for me by S, which means most tasks relate to my first l.o. The tasks I did, such as helping out with various programs, like the lock-in, and researching ideas for displays or program activities, were to help give me a feel for some of the things a teen librarian is responsible for doing. At the same time, they also were sort of designed to help my supervisor get some fresh insight about teens & the library, and what types of things/items should be promoted/focused on. I really enjoyed working through a lot of the items on the task list! And I now have a better idea of all that goes into coming up with and executing teen programs and such at a library.

As for my second l.o., that one is pretty self-explanatory. S downloaded and printed out for me the YALSA teen space guidelines (at least the sections that were relevant, since SPL doesn’t really have a separate teen section on their website anymore), and after reading through them, I did assessments of 2 teen spaces, based on those guidelines and also my own opinions as someone who is still considered a teen. It was interesting to see what YALSA had listed as a standard, when some of them didn’t really seem feasible for the average public library.

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Learning Objectives for Arcade

My L.O.s for ARC were:

learn circulation software (Sierra), through training with staff & using it

learn about collection development through the teen graphic novel/manga section & through shelf reading

learn basic shelving duties through staff training & experience

(bonus: gain customer service experience)

So obviously, tasks I did like learning delivery procedures & how to check-in items related to my l.o. of learning how to use SPL’s circulation software, Sierra. I didn’t get quite as much experience with Sierra as I would’ve liked, but I definitely was able to get a feel for it. It wasn’t too hard to get the hang of after awhile, but there are certainly small details that, if I’m not working with it often, I’ll probably forget.

As for all the shelf reading I did, that relates to my 2nd l.o., which has to do with collection development. The point of me doing all the shelf reading was to sort of go through and assess parts of the library’s collection, based upon certain criteria. (As M put it, not verbatim, the library’s goal is not to just provide windows for people to see how others may live, but for people to be able to look into mirrors & see themselves reflected.) & based upon the assessments, the library could see where they would need to improve or change things, & various other tidbits that are probably important but my brain is too fried to try to parse right now.

& with l.o. 3, things I did like pulling dead items or missing/claimed items, and straightening shelves, etc., were tasks that were related to that!

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Week 6―4/28 - 5/04

Days worked: 2

Tasks worked on:

Setting up the new interactive display in the teen area―a blackout poetry wall

annotated manga rec list

teen/YA book reviews

helped out with a program:

free comic book day:

helped set up children’s area with games and freebies

cut out superhero stickers that kids could color

worked with other teen volunteers & kept an eye on the program while it ran, assisting parents/kids if needed

helped clean up the program once it was over

It turns out one of the teen volunteers is starting college next year & is interested in becoming a librarian so after she talked to S, I talked to her about the LIBT program at SCC!!

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Week 6―4/29 - 5/03

Days worked: 3

Tasks worked on:

shelf reading

children’s picture books (started and finished the last of the sections that needed to be shelf read, yee(haw)t !)

organized M’s outreach suitcase (lol)

& supposedly I’m going to get told the reason I’ve been doing all this shelf reading next week―though honestly, I had just figured it was because 1. it needed to be done, & 2. it related to one of my learning objectives about learning shelving practices & stuff. but who knows? maybe there’s more to it―we’ll just have to wait and see

I also did my info interview at the NNT library on Friday!!

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Week 5―4/21 - 4/27

Days worked: 2

Tasks worked on:

started typing up a summary report of the teen space assessments I did

annotated manga rec list

reviewing some of my favorite teen books

annotated book list

Started making preparations to put up a new interactive display in the teen area

dismantling weeded teen books, cutting their pages out with an x-acto knife

successfully pulled apart 2 books, which gave me plenty of pages for what I needed

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Week 5―4/22 - 4/26

Days worked: 3

Tasks worked on:

shelf reading of

children’s nonfiction (0-600)

children’s nonfiction (601-999)

children’s board books

various tasks L or anybody needed me to do, like locating dead or missing/claimed books

Okay SO. Story time―buckle up folks, it’s a lil wild and definitely a bit bumpy.

It’s Monday right? Early Monday morning―how anyone is functional before 11am is beyond me, especially on a Monday, but I digress. I’m doing my shelf reading, just minding my own business, working quietly while listening to music, as you do. This family comes in―a mom & her two kids I believe, though I didn’t realize it was two at the time. Child 1 is Very Loud when they first enter, she’s yelling (in excitement?) and slamming things (keep in mind, I’m by the nonfiction section, so my backs are towards them & I’m hidden by other shelves, so I can’t see what’s going on even if I had turned around) also Very Loudly. Mom & another staff member ask her to be quiet, mostly unsuccessfully. A little bit later, the kid starts WAILING at the top of her lungs (& I think this made the other kid start crying too).For probably a good 15-20 minutes. Which, fine, okay. These are Very Tiny Children, they don’t really have any self-control over emotional outbursts or anything like that, so I can’t hold it against ‘em. I’m not mad, just wish it was a little quieter, but I can deal, it’s no biggie, yanno? It gets quiet after a while, and now I’m sitting on the floor, going through some of the bottom nonfiction shelves. Still just minding my own business. I pull a book off of the shelf & plan to start flipping through it when it’s SNATCHED out of my hands. By none other than one of the kids that was making noise earlier. Kid1 takes the book and runs away with it―I’m so shocked that all I can do is blink and go “uhh.....”. Meanwhile, kid2 comes over, and starts pulling books off the shelf from in front of me and dumping them into my lap. Kid1 comes back over & tosses the book she had stolen from me into my lap as well. So I reshelve all of these, but kid2 starts to pull off even MORE books to dump on me. I stop her, but obviously she & her sister are displeased with my actions because the next thing I know, they’re running over to the fiction shelf behind me/to my left, pulling books off, and THROWING them at me. Like. Uh. What??? Small children what are you doing. Why are you doing this. Please stop. I beseech you. I try and ask them to stop, but my voice decides, ‘hey, wouldn’t this be a great time for me to disappear? you think so too? Fantastic! See ya later!’ so I’m stuck kind of just staring apprehensively and making half-aborted movements to try to stop them. It ain’t working. So I just take a deep breath and decide ‘yanno what, this is a perfect time for me to take my break. I’ll just... go make a tactical retreat into the staff room and regroup there’, which is what I did. And it turns out they ended up getting kicked out later.

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Week 4―4/15 - 4/19

Days worked: 3

Tasks worked on:

got trained by D on Sierra how to do check-ins, deal with holds, etc., and how/where to put the books to be shelved

Surprisingly easy once you get the hang of it; I liked learning how to do this, but I probably shouldn’t have stood the whole time haha.... my legs Hurt afterwards.

shelf reading:

children’s fiction

children’s foreign languages (Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Persian, +more)

children’s moving up

children’s easy readers

children’s nonfiction (0-600)

Flipping through some of these books was fun! Like the ones about space, animals, etc. But the books dealing with spiders or scorpions.......... No Thank You