Meetings, an article and a plan

Apologies for yet another change of layout. I was finding the other one a bit difficult to read! 

This week I attending a few interesting meetings. The first one was the long-awaited Information Services Committee meeting. This was actually a lot more interesting than I expected it to be, but I can’t really write about it here as I don’t think that would be appropriate! Anyway, I learnt a lot about the structure of ‘Information Services’ and the various teams and committees that attempt to run it (or should that be ‘them’?).

The second meeting I had was with my colleagues in Reader Services and Bibliographic Services, and the Head of Library Services. We were talking about the running of the issue desk for the next academic year. Work on the issue desk is going to be a larger part of the work of the Reader Services and Bibliographic Services from September, so we have to think about lovely things like staffing and rotas again. Sorting out the staffing and rotas will be my responsibility. I used to do the rotas last year, and they are less complicated now (allegedly!) so I am hoping it won’t be too stressful.

The third meeting of the week was about the very important, but oft overlooked subject f shelving. Basically, we don’t have enough shelvers. Next week I’m going to help the library assistant who’s in charge of stock management to write a proposal to try to persuade the powers that be that we need two more shelvers. I haven’t written a report for a while, so it will be good practice.

I wrote my article for the CILIP Gazette last week. I wasn’t very well for some of the week and forgot all about it until Friday, and, as the deadline was Monday and I was going to be away for the weekend, it was a bit of a rush job. I didn’t think it was very good, but the editor said it was alright, which was a surprise, but a relief. I’ll wait and see whether or not it appears in print.

I wrote to CILIP to ask whether or not I need to send them my updated PPDP, and they said there was no need, so that will save me some trouble.

Erm, I think that’s about it!