One of the really cool things about working at KCLS is that if I place books on hold, they're delivered directly to my desk. Of course there's some delay in actually getting them, because it takes them a couple of days to make their way to the Service Center and I'm only there a couple of times per week, but it's extremely convenient. Because it's so easy, I've started using the library a lot more and checking out stacks of books to read. There are six waiting for me at the moment, and I'm hoping that the end of the quarter will afford me time to read them.
I've also started taking advantage of KCLS' music collections. I've now got a small stash of CDs by Dar Williams, the Indigo Girls, REM, and the Cure. These CDs sit on the shelf in my cubicle, so I can listen to them at work, without lugging a huge pile of my own collection to and from Issaquah. I feel slightly bad about hogging an increasingly large pile of CDs, especially since I have the Power to renew my own materials beyond the rules that normal patrons have to obey. For example, I can force a renewal when there's an active hold on that title, and I can probably renew titles more than twice, though I haven't tried. (Not that it matters; as staff, I won't accumulate late fees anyway, so renewal is merely a formality.) I've toyed with the idea of whether I will run into the 100-item limit on checking out items, but I seriously doubt that I'll come anywhere close to that.
I'm getting better with Dynix and Recall (not forgetting commands as much!), and I've discovered that I like the text-based Dynix catalog much better than iPac. In spite of the clunkiness that Dynix displays in some ways (such as forcing use of all-caps in Recall statements, which is ridiculous), in some ways it allows more precision in searching. Besides, I don't have to dink around with silly GUI dropdown boxes, and I get spiffy administrative privileges.
Sometimes it would be more fun to be evil.