[LM_NET] Tasks for Library Assistant

[Anita Beaman <abeaman74@YAHOO.COM>]

I know this is going to sound like an odd question, considering most of us are 
drowning in work and those who don't have assistants would kill to have one, but 
believe me when I say it's a genuine one.
   
  I've just started a new postion, and our library is in a state of flux.  The 
renovation that was supposed to be done by the time school started is not, so our 
books are still in boxes (waiting on the new shelves) our circ desk is two tables 
pushed together and we're functioning basically as a fancy computer lab.  
   
  There are no books to check in or out or put away, and so far the technology has 
been running so smoothly there's no trouble-shooting there.  We can't work on the 
relabeling project because, again, all the books are packed away & we cannot 
currently make changes in the online catalog.  We're a university lab school, and 
all our book processing is currently done by the university's library (we're 
working to change that, but it will take a bit of time), so the 100+ new books that 
arrived last week required minimal work from us.  
   
  My assistant has very little to do .  I need to come up with some creative tasks 
to fill his time - right now he's surfing the Net and reading the paper, and I 
don't want people to see too much of that and begin to question our need for an 
assistant (a need that will certainly be there when our renovation is finished and 
we become a full-service library again).
   
  Do any of you have suggestions for things to keep him busy right now?  I'm 
thinking along the lines of creating resource lists, starting some kind of new 
program -anything that will help keep him busy and feeling useful for the next 
month or so. I have plenty of instructional tasks to fill my time, but I'm drawing 
a blank for him!
   
  Thanks,
  Anita


Anita Beaman, Librarian
University High School
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
abeaman74@yahoo.com
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