This semester, I have the pleasure of interning with the Roanoke City Public Library system in the youth services department. The first two weeks have been full of adventures and learning a lot in a short span of time, and it has been more fun with each passing day. I have learned the basics of the complicated system the library uses and I have done some of the simpler tasks such as checking books in and out, and getting patrons logged onto the computers. In addition, I have begun one of two pretty large tasks that I will continue chipping away at. I am weeding the juvenile section of books that haven’t been circulated in the past two years, and then my supervisor and I sit down and see if the books should be kept, sent to a branch, or recycled.
While I am mostly at the main branch of the library in the center of the city, I have gone to help fill in at a branch with my supervisor. It is a very different experience from working at the branch, and I look forward to continuing to go to branches and learn the ropes there. I have also had the pleasure of filling in for Star City Reads volunteers, and I have been going to local schools to read to young children in the mornings. There are always plenty of things to be done in a public library system, and so far I have enjoyed it all!
