first interview: student worker.

I asked a friend of mine that works in the library if she would do an interview to help me out for my project.  She helped to point me in the right direction, as someone who spends several hours a week there.  A couple things that she said were interesting and helpful:

MC: Do you ever get distracted by noise from people upstairs?

My Friend:  Sometimes, so… you might have experienced this, but the library has those couches that are, like--I don’t know what material they are made out of--but when you sit on them, they make this noise, and it sounds like you’re farting.  And they have those couches upstairs, and so literally like all day long it’ll be that noise and then people start laughing.

MC: Are there ever large groups of people that might get louder at times?

My Friend:  Umm…  Sometimes... [she goes on.]

MC: Are there specific times that you’ve noticed that are more busy than others?

My Friend:  Well, yeah.  Thursday mornings there’s always a lot of people.  A lot of that I think comes from the café. People get coffee in the mornings and so the lobby is always like super packed on Thursday mornings.  The weekends, its usually pretty quiet: Friday and Saturday afternoon.  But then Sunday night is usually fairly busy because everybody tries to get their homework done for the next week.

MC: Were you surprised by anything when you started?

My Friend:  I had to take a little test about like call numbers and stuff to make sure I knew how to put all the books in order.  So that was kinda funny.  

We talked for about 10 minutes, so this is only a part of it.  It'll definitely be helpful as I move forward.  There are a couple themes that I had already begun thinking about that she touched on, so I was glad to talk to her.