I have two interviews tomorrow. One for the librarian job and the other for site tech. Of course I can do both because site tech is added on as an addendum. The former librarian did both. We have ne site tech but he is a teacher so it is hard for him to just drop everything and do stuff like change ink cartridges and such. Nothing complex, just hard for teachers to get done during their work day. Also, I am being considered for a preschool city coordinator. This program is funded by grant money so there is not the whole Yupik/Gussuck issue. The woman sot of in charge is the wife of a friend and she listed me specifically as someone to do this. It involves testing kids and helping parents check out books and materials to help their kids learn and be prepared for school. Stuff like that. And if I get the library job, I can still do this job because it will mostly take place in the library. She just cannot do it because she teaches preschool at the school and an evening class at the Head Start Center. And there are so many kids on waiting lists for preschool that they want to work with parents to help the kids learn. So I am just seeing what happens. One guy is always so negative, saying there is little chance I can get hired for librarian because I am white, unless some specific people come to the interview. I have more faith. I actually spent some time with the visiting school district important people today. Nice people.
I have worked in the library both days so far filling in, by the principal's personal request. Nothing was getting done since school started. In two days i have inputted hundreds of new books into the system and cleaned up the library so it looks presentable instead of 15 boxes of random junk laying everywhere. I taught myself the computer system in less than an hour. The normal library sub came in (who I am competing with for the job and who spends the day usually online because she does not know what to do with the hundreds of new books we have in boxes) and she did help me. I may have pushed us hard today. There was no free time to slack off. I put the books into the computer and she put the stickers on. It worked well. I am glad she was not mean about me being sent in and me taking over the library for the day. Of course she was not friendly with the school board people either. Just silent. I am unsure if I am working in the library tomorrow between interviews or not. The last two days of the week are teacher inservices so no work for me, unless I can convince the principal to pay me to organize this book storage room I found that is a cluttered disaster.