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Hi everyone,
My name's Adam and I'm at the library for work experience and Suzanne has asked for me to write a few blogs about my work experience as it could help you if you're planning in working in the library for work experience or just if you want the background workings of a library.  I thought it would be easy but it most certainly isn't as easy as I thought.
 
In my work experience I have had to alphabeat books, that's when you check whether the books are in the correct order.  On the first floor it's in numbers (the dewey decimal system, a system of numbers that catalogue everything and relate them to numbers, an example is America is number 1 and England is number 2 and so on) and the ground floor is planned in alphabetical order according to the author's surname.
 
I think that the staff at the library are polite and helpful in me getting to grips with the way in which the library works and I have helped in placing books back in the correct places. I have also visited the Riddings branch library to see how a smaller library works.
 
This week I'm going to work in the mobile library and prepare the audio books for sale. I've also worked at the counter and it is rather nice as you talk to the community because they sometimes talk about how they recommend a book which they have read or a group which they have seen in concert and which they recommend you should see because of being the younger generation.
 
All in all I am enjoying it so far and I'll update you further into the week on the other things I've been doing.
 
Bye for now,
Adam