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I had been at work for about 45 minutes when the power went out. As in, goodbye electricity, it was wonderful to know you. (At least the same thing happened to the politicians at Christiansborg - schadenfreude is sweet). Sadly, in a modern library - you'd be surprised how little you can do without electricity - everything's computerized these days.
Anyway, about two hours later, power came back - which didn't mean we could just dive into work, oh no, because having the power cut without warning really doesn't become the servers handling all the different systems etc., so that was about another two hours (which I wickedly exploited to finally get started on my Yuletide fic, so not completely unproductive, if not exactly the sort of productive I was supposed to be). At least the systems were up and running by the time I had a shift downstairs, face to face with loaners and visitors and customers, so I didn't have to do the "sorry, we can't help you reserve a book, sorry, the system is down, sorry, sorry, sorry" routine. Which is a good thing, as it gets old real quick, let me tell you.
Anyway, about two hours later, power came back - which didn't mean we could just dive into work, oh no, because having the power cut without warning really doesn't become the servers handling all the different systems etc., so that was about another two hours (which I wickedly exploited to finally get started on my Yuletide fic, so not completely unproductive, if not exactly the sort of productive I was supposed to be). At least the systems were up and running by the time I had a shift downstairs, face to face with loaners and visitors and customers, so I didn't have to do the "sorry, we can't help you reserve a book, sorry, the system is down, sorry, sorry, sorry" routine. Which is a good thing, as it gets old real quick, let me tell you.