Life Sucks without extra-help!

It's been a long time since I haven't wanted to come to work. It's been a feeling I wake up with since we lost all of our extra-help. Trying to juggle the reference desk with the computer lab has been a trial in and of itself, not to mention the backlog of books we haven't been able to get shelved.

Several people have been very kind and have offered to volunteer for us. It's like I'm marshaling the armies and staving off the invasion of books! Help!

Bad Times at the Library

Last week we got news that all of our extra-help was getting the boot. With five vacancies and another 56 hours being covered for the computer lab, that was a lot of extra-help to lose. Now Marcus and I, instead of doing collection development and GOOD reference service, are manning the computer lab (what a bunch of whiny, entitled, lazy people!) and doing "good enough" reference which consists of pointing in the direction and praying the patron finds the book on their own. I think people calling us on the phone must think we're ignoring them. I don't know how many calls I miss because I'm signing people up on the computers, organizing volunteers, redeeming summer reading program incentives, releasing print jobs and everything else.

*sigh* I'm tired.