I did my community service at the Brooklyn Public Library in Park Slope.
When I first signed up for community service in the library I had never been there before.
So I was lost and didn't know my way around the library. There were 3 other volunteers that worked in the library as well. They were very friendly and welcomed me to the library. The library also had just hired a new librarian and she was almost as new as me to the library. I volunteered under her supervision four hours a day for four days a week. The first few days she just assigned me to do little task like pick books up, and add new books to the display. She told me what holiday she wanted the display section to have and I had to look for the books then put them in the style she wanted. I didn't like this task because it was very boring and required little effort. I often finished around one hour earlier then I needed to. During this time I would wait for a new task that the librarian had just spotted or I would watch the other volunteers do what ever was required of them. One week pasted with the same thing over and over until the librarian finally assigned me to do something else. She started to make me reorganize whole shelves of books. This made me angry because I had to constantly reorganize books. The books were a complete disaster in the first place so I spent one day reorganizing around five shelves. Another thing that angered me was I had to leave my home at 6:20 AM and got home around 6:00 PM so those days were twelve hour days for me. The next day I started to get compliments for all my hard work and was told to keep up the good work. Then the librarian assigned me the job of deleting books from the database and making sure they were put in the proper pile that was to be thrown away. I enjoyed this task much more because I was now in the back with the full time workers and was able to establish some good friendships with them.