First Day

Today was the first day of my new job. Surprisingly, I was not nervous. I felt like I knew what I needed to do, and I would do it. This is the first professional job I've had, so I had to gather up a newer wardrobe over the weekend. Thankfully my parents helped spring for it, so I ended up with nice slacks, shirts, and ties. I filled out all my job paperwork last night, had a nutritious breakfast, and rocked out to MGMT on the way over there.

The college is about 20 minutes from where I live, but it takes about ten minutes longer with traffic. I arrived at 8:30, about 30 minutes early, and the President drove up while I was waiting outside. He let me in and took me upstairs to find the Dean. I then spent the next four hours helping the Dean set up for class placement testing. I was happy to do so, as I like doing new things and I got the chance to meet the registrar and several instructors.

Then, I went to the library, which is on the second floor, and the Dean told me to just start unpacking the boxes that were already there. To start the collection, someone ordered 350-500 titles from Baker & Taylor. I spent the rest of the day unboxing these, and I managed to unbox all of them! There is still a cart left that needs to be shelved, but I'll get that first thing tomorrow.  All most of the books came with the spine labels already applied, but there were 20-30 that did not. I'm not sure why, as I think they paid for all of them to be labeled, so I'll have to look into that. Also, I think they did not send one of the books we ordered, though they did send the workbook for it.

I want to give a big hug to whoever ordered this collection, as they actually ordered some professional development stuff for me! Two nice books on collection development and cataloging. I already have my own book on collection development, which I will be bringing to the library in a few days, but I am in dire need of cataloging assistance. My heart soared when I saw that book.

Tomorrow I think I will give my paperwork to the HR people, finish shelving the books, throw out the empty boxes, and start writing policy. If I get a computer log-in, of course.