Latest and Last

Well, this will be my last official entry. I've received most of the surveys back, though some of them printed out funny. *mutters* Stupid two-way copy machine! Anyway, I have a paper due in my other class next week, so I'll need to devote the rest of my time to doing that. I really just want to talk a bit about how much fun I've had, despite having to get up so early. Not enough fun to make me switch from public libraries, but still fun.

What's also cool is that I seem to have unintentionally started a new "craze", so-to-speak. My mom was running out of bookmarks to give the kids after checking out and she didn't have any money in the budget to buy more. So, I made the suggestion that we should buy some $1 Store stickers and stick a couple each on thin pieces of colored paper. WOW! The kids went crazy over them! Even I was surprised by their popularity. :-) Plus, they're fun to make! I find making them to be very stress-relieving. LOL! The hardest part was trying to find a fairly even amount of "boy" and "girl" stickers. I really hate to stereotype, but it was the boys themselves who told me I needed more. *chuckles*

Overall, this has been a really good experience for me, even if I don't wind up using a lot of this information in my actual project. Interacting with the kids and getting to know them was a lot of fun and makes me yearn even more for a position in youth services as opposed to circulation. But I suppose beggars can't be choosers and besides, I'm just happy to be working in a library at all right now.