librarydayinthelife

Another day in the life of the wee librarian. Here are the minutia of my day (probably more than you ever wanted to know):

• unsurprisingly, went through email, rss, social networks, etc to update myself and got ready for the day
• posted meeting minutes on wiki
• accepted a role as part of the training team for blended service and possibly as a mentor
• worked on collection development
• worked on updating our First Year Experience wiki
• 2 hour research help desk shift
• finally checked out bing
• set up doodle poll to decide sessions for upcoming Handheld Librarian Online Conference
• added projects for incoming co-op students to work on
• fought some more with volunteer scheduling
• dealt with various email throughout the day
• called it a day

Well, I’ve been silent for a while now but I’ve decided to come back and take part in Library Day in the Life. It’s been around before but this is my first go at it. I figure it’s good to share what I do, realize what I do, and gives me a great reason to start writing here again. So, here’s my Monday – pretty typical for this time of year for me. Note: I have cheated a bit, in that I tweeted much of what I did, mostly because I figure I’ll forget later. Apologies for the repetition to those who follow me on twitter.

Monday

• start the day by catching up with the library world and the world in general (rss feeds, social networks, news, etc)
• meeting with our teaching with technology group, where we’re looking at library integration into our new blackboard system
• had wikis set up for committees I’m on (thanks Amanda!) and put content in them
• got confirmation of full move to blackboard in fall, which means updating library quiz and helping out faculty as needed
• updated online form for high school instruction requests
• worked on conference proposal
• ate lunch at my desk (bad habit – must break)
• hour shift on im/email reference
• coordinating volunteers for next week’s Welcome Day
• meeting to script out next library video (we’re doing a series which I’ll post more on when they’re all done)
• biked home to avoid nasty looking clouds