Library Day in the Life – Day 5

Today I:

Opened the library
Went on the issue desk. Returned some books. Helped colleague (who was in to borrow some books and do some photocopying, not to work) with photocopier as it was playing up yet again!
Issued some books, dealt with fines payments
Discussed this afternoon’s and next week’s rota for work at the new library
Emailed my [...]

Library Day in the Life – Day 4

Today I:

Opened up the library.
Helped a colleague with some scanning – extracting and inserting pages. I had no idea what I was doing, having never used the scanning software before, but we managed to make it do what we needed it to do. My colleague is one of several colleagues involved in scanning journal articles [...]

Library Day in the Life – Day 3

Today I:

Helped colleague with a spreadsheet.
Altered the rota after replies from pool staff.
Had an email from my line manager about the whereabouts of the radios we used to have in the old library. Looked for radios, which were nowhere to be seen and asked colleague what she did with them when we packed everything up. [...]

Library Day in the Life – Day 2

Today I:

Spoke to a lady from the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (LTEU) who came round to ask us each individually what IT training we would like. I said I would like some more training in  Excel and  need to learn the basics about databases.

Counted the money from the till with a colleague.

Phoned a member [...]

Forms and fines

Today I have not been at work. However, I have been working, if you can call visiting one of our campus libraries working. I am now at home, not working, taking time off in lieu.
The visit to the library was interesting in some ways, although I’m not sure that we actually achieved very much. I’d been there before, [...]

In summary

Some things that have happened in my library world since January:
Secondment (January-March)
At the beginning of the 2008, I went on secondment to work as a Faculty Liaison Librarian, but I’ve already written about that elsewhere, so I won’t write about it in this post, althought I may write about it again in the future.
Application for [...]

Where to start?

My poor, neglected chartership. I have been doing lots of things which could be said to be contributing to my career development, but as far as actually doing anything specifically towards chartering…err…no. I have thought about it a few times, usually something along the lines of, ‘oh, pants, I really need to do something about [...]

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 [...]

There was a reason for this…

There was a reason that I was going to write a post today, but, unfortunately, I can’t remember what it was! The meeting with the Issue Desk Assistants went well. People were quite positive about the proposed changes, so that was good, and a relief.
 We had a meeting yesterday about Library documentation and web pages, during [...]