Learned how to deal with patron book requests yesterday and as part of that process, officially authorized my first ever book purchase which was Colony: The Harrowing Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman. 

One of my dream library jobs would be to do full-time adult non-fiction (ANF in the vernacular) acquisitions so I found this moment very cool and worth noting. 

As I was working through a few other requests, I realised the  impact of a media hit - at least in terms of book requests.  I saw patron requests for books that had been reviewed in MacLean's and authors who had recently been on The Daily Show or Oprah and so on.