New year, old worries!

Still, my new assistant (that I share with my senior colleague) started today. Both of us were at work bright and early while senior colleague made his leisurely arrival somewhat later. As he is responsible for T's induction programme, I took her on a tour of the new extension which has been opened of course since her job interview. Would have possibly gone a little better if we hadn't immediately bumped into one of the library services assistants (who do the mail and the locking up etc) who took great delight in pointing out to us some of the little snags that any new building is prone to.

T, however, seems very capable and I gave her a couple of things to be going on with. One of the floor manager's worries is that there won't be enough for her to do (his other worry is that she'll be taking work away from what the 'floor team' do) and while there may be a settling in period where we sort out who does what, and I'll probably continue to worry about whether I am directing her sufficiently, I'm sure that there is plenty to keep her occupied. It's just a question of working out what in a place where there is much less bibliographic checking and ordering to do; much less shelving and the like to do; less (so it seems at the moment but I may be wrong) enquiry work etc. It's a shame I can't really ask her to 'read' for me! But she does have teaching experience - so there's an avenue to pursue...