No network

Last week was a horrible week. We had no network in our building...or in town for that matter...from Monday until Friday.Power went out at the tower and Allconet was totally down. No circ. No internet. It made for an interesting week. We hooked our computer in the back room up to the web ramp which meant no fax machine. I forgot how slow dial-up was. AWFUL slow. AND...no scanner. All the barcodes and every number coming our way had to be typed in by hand. This couldn't have happened at a worse time. We had piles of deletions waiting to be scanned. Piles of returned books to be scanned. Thursday we were up and down so fast it made us dizzy. I've never seen Sherry discouraged before.(Not a pretty sight!) A big thank you went out to my supervisor Lisa M. We scanned barcodes on a word document and got them to her during one of the 2-minute up phases and she took care of quite a bit of them for us. So thankful were we come Friday when the system went up and stayed up. What a backload to take care of.