[Publib] reference desk time

[Miriam Bobkoff]

>Hi all you reference workers out there! Think about your typical shift at 
>work...how many hours are you actually "on call" at the reference 
>desk?  Also, does your library have reasons for the amount of time each 
>reference librarian is at the desk? If so, please explain.

the full-time reference staff spend a little more than half their time on 
the desk. We each have other responsibilities as well as the reference desk 
time. Members of other departments also work shifts, but not as many as we do.

Shifts are 2 hours long during the day, three hours in the evening; and 
Saturday or Sunday, all the hours we're open. So a normal day has two 
2-hour shifts in it; or a 2-hr shift and then later a 3-hour evening shift; 
tomorrow, Saturday, I'll be on the desk the whole eight hours. The 
scheduler tries to give us each a day a week with only one shift, so we can 
get our other stuff done.

Is this what you wanted to know?

Miriam B.

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