Will be Working Shorthanded this Summer

The NJIT Library had 5 reference librarians until March 2010 when one of my colleagues resigned.  Since this position has not been filled and may be lost permanently, we have worked with just 4 for over a year.  Since that time, the technical services librarians have helped out by each working one reference shift a week.  We also use students at the reference desk who call us when there is a question they can't handle.  One of may colleagues is leaving next week on family leave and will not return until August leaving just 3 of us.  During better financial times, the university administration would have let us hire a temp to fill in.  Obviously over the summer people take vacation.  So there will be several weeks when there will be only two reference librarians.  All I can say is "when the going gets tough, the tough get going."  Library usage is much slower over the summer anyway.