Internship Week 4
Monday
On Monday I worked at the audio-visual desk. Being that Chopin’s birthday is upcoming the librarian I was working with decided to make a sign and display to showcase Chopin’s works.
A patron was looking for an older film that was adapted from The Bailbondsman by Stanley Elkin. After researching the topic we were able to determine that the Alex and the Gypsy is a loose adaptation of the film. Unfortunately, we were unable to locate a DVD copy of the film as it has not been released on DVD.
We had a great conversation with a patron about the Winter Olympics, specifically curling, as it was being shown on the plasma screen in the AV area. We all agreed that curling is fairly unexciting to watch and possibly the only olympic sport that an average person without training could compete in (no offense to any professional curlers out there).
Friday
I spent my Friday night at the Reader’s Advisory desk. I was able to spend a brief amount of my time with Mick Jacobsen . It was great to hear about the exciting things he was doing with ileadu. I love the chances I’ve had at the Skokie Public Library to get away from the academia of librarianship and see what people are involved in on a daily basis. It got fairly busy that night with patrons. I showed a couple how to use the Overdrive service and they were absolutely delighted. They had one small problem though, they didn’t have an iPod as of yet they were only considering buying one. I showed them Skokie’s wide selection of play aways and they went away happy with some “work out” material. Unfortunately, a different patron ran into some difficulties with the OverDrive dedicated station. He was upset that the station had been changed from WMA to Mp3 synching format. Since I have been interning more patrons were coming in with iPods wanting to use the snych station.
I’m sure Mr. Greenwalt is going to hate me by the end of my internship as I keep directing these type of issues to him. Regardless of the issues that seem to occur with the Overdrive service I am genuinely surprised to see how many people are interested in using it and ask questions about how to use it. From my experience it seems that e-audio books are eclipsing the desire of e-books or e-book readers.
