Friday had a lot of tech and shelving work. However, I did help out Kai (the auditorium coordinator) and Susan (children's librarian) with organizing for the potluck. Pequot has one every year I think and it seems like a lot of fun. For example, they had chalk for the children to draw on their walkway and hula hoops to play with and a badminton net. Plus, there was obviously lots of food. I helped set up - decorated with some flowers, washed off the drink dispensers, and more.
Also, I met another new staff member (or at least new to me). His name is Nabid and he's actually a senior in high school like me. Next year he'll be going to UConn for biomedical engineering. I was pretty impressed. He helped out a lot and we actually did pretty much everything that needed to be done. So we had a little work straightening up a display (books to be sold) and making it look nice. But then, something that's happened occasionally when I worked happened for the first time on my internship. We had to shelf-read. This is one of the strangest things I've ever done for a job, but I realize why it's necessary. It can just be so boring sometimes. Shelf reading is essentially what it says... we just look along the shelves. We do this to see if any books are out of order or completely in the wrong place or whatever else can go wrong. I just find it odd that walking around looking at books for a mistake is a job that needs to be done. Yet, then again, sometimes I find a lot of things wrong. So I guess that's why it's important.
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