Collection Development

The two questions I had at the Reference desk, were about pedophiles and treatments, the other question referred to wealthy nations helping poorer nations, should they or shouldn't they?
Yesterday I talked to one of the Reference Librarians about Collection Development. I found it fascinating that a lot of the things she talked about were some of the very same things we talked about in the Collection development class that I took. She also talked about budgets and deciding what serials to keep and which ones to get rid of, which is never an easy decision. She also talked about when selecting books not to let personal bias get in the way. I hope to get to sit on a meeting regarding cutting serials. I think that should be interesting.

Solo on the Reference desk!

Today I got to be on the Reference desk by myself. It was scary! I actually had two people come up to the desk and ask questions. I felt I helped them with their information needs. It made me feel good that I could help them. As for answering the phone, I am still working on that.

Final Project

I finally decided what I am doing for my final project. Hopefully it will be something that adds to the library's resources. I hope to create something that will help students find the resources they need. This will go along with one of the goals in my portfolio.
I still haven't got to sit in on a class yet. I hope to do that soon, also I plan to sit at the Reference desk some more and observe. This will help me when I get to sit at the Reference desk myself. I will be filling in for the Reference librarians while they have their weekly meeting. I am a little nervous about this, but I still have some time to get ready before that happens!

Reference Meeting

This week I did not get to sit in on a class unfortunately. I did get to go to a Reference Meeting. In the meeting we learned how to maintain library webpages and the guidelines specified for each page so that there is uniformity in all the pages.
Right now I am trying to come up with an idea for my final project in my web class. More on this later.

Last week I got to sit at the Reference desk with one of the Reference librarians. I learned a lot about the different resources that are in the Reference section. There are some really neat items that are useful for many different things. I also learned about Meebo, which is a type of instant messaging, the Reference librarians are using it at the reference desk to answer questions people have online. I intend to sit in on a class this week and observe different teaching methods.