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Tardily, A Day in the Life

// February 6th, 2010 // Libraries, librarians

A selection of my daily activities for A Day in the Life of a Library, #4:

Monday, January 26, 2010

8:00 a.m. – meeting prep, to-do list creation and review

10:00 a.m. – Weekly Coordinators meeting

11:30 a.m. – approved staff timecards

12:00 p.m. – paperwork from recent and upcoming conferences

1:00 p.m. – weekly Tech Division meeting

2:30 p.m. – meeting to talk about revamping the furniture in the Documents area, which actually started at 2, for which I hope I made up for a bit by showing up with a basket of chocolate.

Tuesday, January 27, 2010

9:00 a.m. – Leadership team meeting (the Coordination Team, or CT, which I find kind of funny)

11:00 a.m. – Art History 497, the History of Modern Art

1:00 p.m. – Meeting with fellow librarian Cindy Judd to talk about a presentation we’ll be doing on libraryh3lp.

Wednesday, January 28, 2010

7:30 a.m. – cell rings; network is down. Great.

8:10 a.m. – IT reboots router; we are back in business.

9:00 a.m. – spent 30 minutes with an English grad student who ended our session by telling me I’m worth my weight in gold.  FTW!!

12:00 p.m. – crocheting! [Requires Ravelry account, boo.]

1:30 p.m. – Liaison meeting in which the LibGuides group, a subgroup of our User Experience Team (UX), presented our recently-crafted “purpose statement” for our LibGuides.  I recently joined the LibGuides group, who has also put together an amazing set of resources for our liaisons in the “Best Practices” guide.  Wish we’d done that two years ago.

3:30 p.m. – Crashed the English & Theatre Department’s faculty meeting to listen to their updates on study abroad courses (WANT!) and to listen to the discussion of the proposal to put more English classes online, particularly those that meet General Education requirements.

Thursday, January 29, 2010

8:00 a.m. – wrote the first draft of this blog post

11:00 a.m. – Art History 497. There is no link because there is nothing online. Argh.

2:00 p.m. – demonstration of the TurningPoint “clickers” that are available for our use in presentations and instruction sessions.

Friday, January 30, 2010

8:00 a.m. – Fixed the DNS problem I caused the night before, on this blog. In a complete panic then adrenaline hangover the rest of the day.

10:00 a.m. – attended a presentation on Institutional Repositories and Scholarly Communication at EKU by my Dean. It included lunch!

4:00 p.m. – talked with Gretchen Caserotti of Darien Library about the awesome things they’re doing in the Children’s Library.

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