Freshie

Nov 1
我开始上班了, 在泰莱大学的图书馆. 这是我继拉曼大学的第二份工作, 我是一位图书馆管理员. 第一天上班是紧张的, 因为前途茫茫, 不知道新同事能否接受我以及期待新环境带来的惊喜. 一如惯例, 认识了"重要人物" - 老板, 主管部门负责人和同事. 基本上, 大家都还算亲切, 可能工作环境跟公司的政策界限, 逼使每个人都显得那么地冷酷, 像似和时间赛跑. 我当然也得入乡随俗, 不敢多话, 只当自己是"菜鸟" (虽然经验丰富), 但是, 人际关系是最难的功课, 必须打好基础, 以后办事就比较能得心应手.

下半段时间, 就和同事上课, 了解图书馆的运作以及有关部门的事项.

今天的心情是清闲的, 可能处于"新生"状态, 活动也局限于认识同事以及了解地方特色.


Nov 2
Second day in new place. Today is easy mood, not like yesterday, excited and worried. Perhaps used to the environment and the temperature. Morning doing shelving with Raj and others. They are using Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) System to catalogue the materials. At first of course not really used to the numbers but soon after, it becomes easy task as numbering system more flexible than LC which I used before.

Same as Monday, I attend training organised by Azura to get to know Virtua.


Nov 3
Third day in Taylors. Today no training and senior also doesn't ask me to do anything, therefore I only check my email and react if there is a need. I do chat with some other colleagues to understand their job scope and problems they might encounter. It's good for me to know what they are doing, at least, I can learn about their culture. This is tricky game because I will justify them when I do the talking with them. From the chat, I would know their characters.


Nov 4
Today is Diwali eve, a number of Indian staff going for holiday. I take care L2 counter. In order to get familiar with the work in library, L2 is the best place to practise our customer service and could improve our responsive to the patron. Busy and clumsy while multi-tasking. Yet, I do not get familiar with Virtua transaction log when there is an inquiry from the student. I feel useless as those days I was expert in investigating the transaction log with the patron. Anyway, I feel better after I persuade myself saying that I'm freshie here, I couldn't show off thou I know the system well. In fact, I do not practise circulation quite a long time, of course, I will feel panic and hard to decide when there is question relate to the system.

Overall I feel good today as I get back the feeling of being apppreciated while helping the student for the transaction.


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