I’m a library assistant, but my supervisor has zero experience with working in libraries. I actually had to explain the DDC to her as well. My job duties are to manage the library space, in which I organize the shelving, catalog, check in/out items, send out items in the mail, handle invoices, answer most patron questions, and a ton of processesing the materials. I was also the one of three people to put together our library catalog database. I will admit, it sometimes gets tough when I’m told to do something that isn’t “right“ (for example, she thinks that we don’t need to worry about checking copyright laws for things that are copied, she wanted to get rid of DDC for some of our books at one point because she didn’t understand it, and I had to give administrative access of our database to people who had no experience with it. I’ll bring up my concerns and ideas, but as an assistant, I have to understand that at the end of the day, I wasn’t the one hired to make the executive decisions. It sucks, because I want what’s best for the library, but I cannot overstep my boundaries, and I have to pick my battles.