Reference Desk with Some Assistance

On Tuesday, January 29th, I sat again at the reference desk, this time => 10am -2pm.

Nothing that overly interesting happened. I was able to take the lead at the assistant section of the desk. I am certainly feeling more comfortable. I have also dealt with a couple of challenging patrons in that their words did not make total coherent sense and they were not really "listening" to me. However, I found that my experience volunteering at the Emergency Housing Consortium (EHC homeless shelter) to be helpful in not only understanding these patrons but also caring for them.

One thing I did notice about the King collection was that there are not many current undergraduate mathematics books. I can understand not always having the latest edition but it seems to me that at least once per decade a current edition of the essentials (College Algebra and Trigonometry, Precalculus, Calculus, Finite Math, etc.) should be purchased. I will check with the mathematics librarian about it.

1/28 Hours: 1.0 (instr.) & 3.0 (ref.)
1/29 Hours: 4.0 (ref.)