Seeds!

Daily Hours: 6
Total Hours: 54

Today started off with a short staff meeting before the library opened.  The Neighborhood Police Officer, who also has scheduled open "office hours" each week in the library (where he apparently learns a lot about what's going on the area from patrons who come to report things etc.) was supposed to be there answering questions about situations in and around the library, but he didn't show up. The same thing happens occasionally during his scheduled library hours, as he is on call. We talked about some general housekeeping issues, but most importantly we talked about an incident that happened the other evening in library. One of the employees was finally was able to call the police on a patron she had suspected of doing drugs in the library. He had been coming into the library each morning right when it opened and rushing right to the family bathroom where he would spend way too long, never even flushing the toilet. She told him he had to start using the regular men's bathroom, which is where he was caught the other day.  Michael commented that for that reason he never uses the staff bathroom, instead he uses the public one and in the process he "learns a lot."  Just another reason we were going to have the officer come talk at the meeting...

Besides figuring out some logistics for future Bubbler programming (looks like a Fermented Food program with the UW Slow Food club in late June is a go! Yay!) and finishing up my Seed Library presentation I'll be giving next week, I spent the rest of the afternoon working on a resource guide for the parents of the children coming to our bilingual story time.  I really enjoyed pulling together some of the knowledge and resources I have been acquiring during my independent study and actually putting them to use!