Well, I spent my first four-hour shift on a reference desk today and I must say it was a learning experience. 95% of my work load could be boiled down to the following sentence: “You can reserve a computer over there using the computer with the pink sign on the top.” I did actually answer five reference questions (though they were all someone looking for a book on a particular topic, not a real ref question like “What’s the capital of Zimbabwe?”) four of which took me over to the 600s (an odd coincidence I must say.) The other was for a biography of Michael Jordan. Given the choice of a video and a book, the your teen chose the video. (Another big surprise.)
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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