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| Downtown Los Angeles |
A few days ago my Grandma took me to her work. My Grandma works at the University of Southern California (USC) library. She is a librarian, and works in a library that has over 2 million books. My Grandma leaves to go to work at six-thirty in the morning so I had to sleep over at there house. I couldn't have breakfast in the morning because we had to leave right away. On the way to her work, we passed downtown Los Angeles. Downtown is a place where there are many gigantic buildings were people work and live.
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| Each isle has more than 100,000 books in it |
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| Stamping Discard on books |
At her work there is a toaster. We took some pieces of bread and cream-cheese and made breakfast there. After I had breakfast, my Grandma gave me some books to stamp the word Discard on the books that the library didn't need anymore. I had to stamp the spine, the first few pages, and the back where the bar code was.
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| Very old books |
While I was working, some students arrived to work in the library. After I was done stamping the books, my Grandma took me to one of her students named Olivia. That day was her last day because her school started on Monday. The first thing I did with her is to find the books that people were requesting to check out. All the books are organized by call number. It was very hard to find the correct books. Then Olivia showed me the Dewey section. In this part of the library many of the books are over a 100 years old. The books are smelly and very dusty.
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| Scanning books |
Next, we scanned a whole cart of books that were returned back to the library. When I was done, I had lunch. That day there was ice cream for all of the students and I got some too. After lunch, there was a job fair that my Grandma had to attend. A job fair is a place where all the people who want a job go and meet with people who are hiring. My Grandmother wanted to hire 3 students to work in the library. The job fair was on the main campus of USC. On top of the building, there is a Globe that stands for International Relations were the students study how countries relate to one another. On the other side of the building, there are many flags from different countries. While my Grandma was talking to other students, I went around to every table and got candy or other goodies that they were handing out. When I got home, I shared all the goodies that I brought with my siblings. After the job fair, my Grandma looked over the applications and looked for the neatest hand writing. I learned how important it is to have neat handwriting.
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| Globe on top of the International Relations building |
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| International flags |
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| Job fair |
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