Day in the Life of a Librarian (Solo)

No one really thought of a librarian as being a hard worker. Most think that all you do is sit behind a desk and shush everyone but there was so much more that needed to happen to make a library successful. Of course Booker didn’t often go into the minute details of his position as others tended to find it boring. It was tragic to say that the world these days was beginning to look further and further away from print materials and focus was narrowing in on the digital. Booker had no problem with the digital frontier but he would always be a stalwart defender of his first love...books.

Of course, that didn’t mean he had to always be in love with it. Truth was that more often than not the man was pretty satisfied with his work but there were just those days, like today, where even the library couldn’t help but be agonizingly boring.

At the start of the day, Booker had his shift at the reference desk. However, asides from a few calls asking when the new ‘50 Shades of Bae’ was going to be available for check-out (try never, since he was tired of checking in books that were questionably sticky), things were far too quiet. Very few patrons came through today except for a handful of regulars. Most of them didn’t have any questions and merely strolled in and directly into whatever they were working on. Even his coworkers were quiet and did little to combat his boredom.

Sadly even that was better than what he was doing now -- office work. He didn’t mind this part of his job but that was because the rest of his day tended to be more interesting. Now it was anything but. The tedium was merely prolonged into another set of hours, in another location. As he typed in confirmation codes to the last on his list of book vendors, Booker grumbled. God he hoped the day got better than this.