Oct 13 '09 - 30 min

Joyce Hartmann, the veteran library aide at Hale, is going to be out for surgery for six weeks around the holidays. Today, Joyce, Diane Smith (Hale's LMS), and I met to discuss which of Joyce's regular jobs could be passed to me during her absence. What I discovered today is that Joyce and Diane have been working together so long that they have their responsibilities delineated in a finely tuned manner. It's neat to see how smoothly their operation works after working side by side for the better part of 25 years. I also learned that Joyce does a TON to keep the library running smoothly. After tossing a few ideas around, we decided that Joyce would train me in the intake and barcoding of all of our magazines and research periodicals.