Thursday, Jan 21 was my fourth day in the reference department. I continued to work on reference questions and also attended an individual RefWorks teaching session and a library tour for an intern doing research for one of the schools.

I also "refreshed" the ref desk binder by reorganizing the information and putting it in a new binder with new tabs.

I learned where facilities management is when I noticed one of the clocks was working and took it to be fixed. The facilities at this library are excellently maintained.

I have noticed a lot of differences between the public library and MCU library. One is that the public library had a lot of meeting. I haven't seen one large group meeting here. At the public library there regularly scheduled meetings on Tuesdays. Different teams met, such as third Tuesday was the entire Info Dept at 1pm and the Childrens Dept at 3. There was an all staff meeting once a month, management teams, IT teams etc. There were also many meetings at library headquarters. So that a lot of time was spent in meetings, and staff from one branch would come to work the desks during "all staff" meetings. I will be curious to see how information is passed without meetings. I know email is used. Two things that I see that make meeting less needed are that there are dedicated people for IT and facilities instead of them being collateral duties that librarians do, and there are no part time people.

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