"The Book" and first time as R

[Bad Zebra]

Along the lines of what Billy said...I have a brief and frank conversation with the official scorer (usually a visitors scorer at the table as well) about my expectations of them along the lines of:
-Make sure you make eye contact with every official when they are reporting
-Compare score with other scorer often (like every dead ball) to make sure everyones on same page
-Have the timekeeper sound a horn during a dead ball if there's a book issue to summon th R over
- Give me a thumbs up at the final horn to let me know book is accurate and complete.
-Let them know the scoreboard is just a bunch of pretty lights. We (officials) are only concerned with the book being accurate.
- We are required to list all game officials names in the book. This may be a local thing.

And I ALWAYS walk over and thank the table crew at the conclusion of the game.

Congrats and good luck!