Pulling Holds at Library

A: The aim of pulling holds is to help the library find books that people have requested to put on hold for them to pick up. Books do not find themselves and put themselves on the shelves of the office! 

C: I had to communicate and collaborate with the people working at the library to print out the pull holds list, as well as fellow volunteens to split the list into maneagable and smaller sections.

T: I signed up for this event a month before it's actual date, so I had a lot of time to plan for it. I decided that I wanted to take on all the books in the adults section that day-- or upstairs.

I: I had to know where all the different sections of the library were, from the Children's section, between the Children's fiction and non fiction, as well as comic books, new books, and (auto)biography books. The section for the children under 5 also has a pretty confusing navigation, with Easy Readers, Easy, and holiday books. The adults section upstairs has a fiction, non fiction, as well as a comic books section, but the comic books are with the non-fiction, strangely enough. 

V: While pulling holds, I'm completely focused on this one task. It's strange because usually I'd be productive, thinking about things I want to do for my writing, thinking about my homework and assignments, thinking about exams and the material that I'm reviewing, but when I'm pulling holds at the library, I'm doing sometime utterly unbeneficial to my future, but I'm still completely focused on it.

E: While pulling holds, I have to be very engaged because how else would I find books from shelves holding thousands? Authors may have the same last names, so reading each and every book title on a shelf requires a lot of focus.

LO4: I've been a volunteer at the Allen Public Library for a whole year now, including the summer. I've persevered through the difficulty of being unable to find shifts where I can help, and I'm committed to helping my library, of which has allowed me to read many different books, and was my childhood.