A License to Stamp II.

So...today was my second day at the Library. Letting my self in by the back door with the key I had been given felt very odd and a bit like breaking and entering.I was  working from 10.00, when the Library opens, until 1.00 pm. Today I learned about the panic button which when pressed calls security and the police, who are thankfully, just over the road."Do you have to use it at all?" I asked slightly worried."Hardly ever," was the unnerving reply.I registered a new customer and sorted some books that had been reserved. I checked in returned books and DVD's and checked out books and DVD's. One fellow came up to the counter to take out a pile of DVD's and as I scanned the first one a message popped up on the computer screen. The first thing I read was..."DO NOT READ THIS OUT TO THE CUSTOMER.."It continued to say that this customer had on a number of occasions written 'rude messages' on the comment slips inside the DVD's  and even written on the cases themselves in biro.I was peering at the computer screen for quite sometime while the customer was wondering what was going on. I had to call over one of the regular Librarians and she peered at the screen too for a while longer. In the end it was just a warning and that if he was to do it again we were to inform the Librarian about it.I was able to check out his DVD's and send him off.A lady came in to borrow two books about training sheep dogs."Do you have sheep dogs?" I asked."Not yet," she said, "but I am going to get some."I learned how to sort the DVD's and put them back on the carousels and was shown a little of how to prepare new books for their life on the shelves.I was told I was doing very well though I hardly felt that I was, but at least today I did not make any mistakes. I am next in again on Friday for 5 hours from 1.00 until 6.00pm.

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