What is a librarian’s day like?

July 8, 2008
By
This is getting ridiculous!

My desk at the library

Wow I saw this come across in the search terms used to find my blog.  I’m assuming it’s someone considering becoming a Librarian and I thought what an amazing opportunity!  If I post about this and get others to do it too, it will allow librarians to share amongst ourselves (our positions are changing so rapidly) and also  to let the public know what we do.  I’m not sure I have the ability to start a meme, but I really hope other librarians will pick this up as sort of a meme and write about their day or week on their blogs

Since my days vary so much, I’m going to write about my week, look for it some time next week.  In the mean time please consider doing this on your blog if you have one!

Edited at 7/9/08 2:30pm Central to add: This morning while I was busy playing videos games Lori Reed created a wiki for this idea where you can add your name and your blog to the list if you’re particpating.  Go sign up! key is “library”

Similar Posts:

Tags: , , , , ,

42 Responses to What is a librarian’s day like?

  1. lauren pressley on July 8, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Haha! My desk looks just like that! Thanks for starting this meme… I might do a daily summary Wed-Wed since my days vary a lot, too!

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  2. Talking Books Librarian on July 8, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    A cool idea…. but I’m not sure I have a typical day, week, or even year! :) I will give it some thought though….

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  3. Connie Crosby on July 8, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    What a great use of web statistics looking at your blog traffic! I will post something too and let you know when I’ve done it. :-)

    Cheers,
    Connie

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  4. Lori Reed on July 8, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    Wow I would love to see what other librarian days are like. I’ve actually been thinking about doing this for a while. As a full time “trainer” I often hear…what do you do all day you only teach a few classes a month…as a result I thought it would be fun to document a day in the life of…

    Thanks for starting this!

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  5. Days in my week « Tomorrow May Rain on July 8, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    [...] in my week Posted on July 8, 2008 by J This is a great idea from another librarian to talk about a “day in the life”. But I have to agree with her that just describing [...]

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  6. Bobbi Newman on July 8, 2008 at 6:09 pm

    I’m so excited to see the blog posts that get written up! I really hope this spreads, it’s going to be so interesting so how other people send their days.

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  7. lauren’s library blog » A day in the life on July 8, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    [...] L. Newman, over at Librarian by Day, has posted an interesting challenge: for library bloggers to post about what they do in a day of work. As with most of the commenters, [...]

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  8. Margo Jantzi on July 9, 2008 at 4:37 am

    Howdy,

    My weeks as a new library media specialist are amazingly exciting! Currently I’m processing over 1,500 books that were donated. Barcodes and spine labels have become my closest friends.

    Check out our website to see me shelving the Follett Opening Day Collection.

    We are collecting box tops for education to assist the collection development.

    Any experienced elementary library media specialists that wish to give me wisdom and advice for success in my first year please e-mail me at

    mjantzi@rockingham.k12.va.us

    Warmly,
    Margo in Virginia

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  9. curiouschild on July 9, 2008 at 7:32 am

    I’ll join in. My day varies from day to day because I work alternately as a reference librarian, an archivist and an history instructor.

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  10. [...] joking aside, I got the idea for the “week in the life” from Librarian By Day via Lauren’s Library [...]

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  11. Mandy on July 9, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    A great idea !

    Here is my attempt, http://m8nd1.blogspot.com/2008/07/day-in-life.html

    Mandy

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  12. A Day in the Life of…(You) on July 9, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    [...] Bobbi Newman wrote a post on her site Librarian by Day with the idea of what if we could all write posts detailing a day or [...]

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  13. Kathryn Greenhill on July 9, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    Nice idea. Hope to do mine in the next couple of weeks. I have a desk at home and a desk at work, so I’ll try to include shots of both of them. Work = much neater than home.

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  14. [...] 10, 2008 at 1:36 pm · Filed under Uncategorized I read Gina’s blog about the idea of sharing with others what our days are like as librarians from Librarian By Day, and I really like it. Not just for the sharing aspects, but also it will be [...]

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  15. What does a librarian do? at geistweg.com on July 10, 2008 at 9:08 am

    [...] Newman, at Librarian By Day, noticed a search in her logs that read: “what is a librarian’s day like?” She writes: [...]

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  16. One Day in the Life of a Librarian « on July 10, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    [...] One Day in the Life of a Librarian Posted on July 11, 2008 by wedothatinidaho I saw this idea to post a blog about what it’s like to be a librarian, but it would also work as Library Assistant, Page, Director, Circulation Manager, etc. I first saw it on Gina Perischini’s Blog, and then read it on the pages she linked from, namely Librarian by Day. [...]

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  17. Civil Librarian on July 11, 2008 at 10:41 am

    Fantastic idea! One of the things I do at my job is coordinate professional development for our Urban Libraries Council Scholars; I’m going to be certain to clue them in to this so they can get a good look at the variety of professional library work looks like! Again, thanks for the great idea!

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  18. [...] thing going on this week in the library blogosphere: in response to an invitation issued by the Librarian by Day, over a dozen library staff will be detailing their workdays on their blogs.  All kinds of [...]

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  19. [...] I get up and after making coffee, check all email accounts from home. Then since I don’t have to be at work until this afternoon I try to relax so I a play video game.  When I get too frustrated because I’m dying I check FriendFeed and Twitter and see Lori Reed has created a wiki for the Day in the Life idea.! awesome! Apparently I do have the ability to start a meme.  [...]

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

  20. [...] find her blog searching on the phrase “What is a librarian’s day like.” She suggested that her readers post an answer to this question so that other librarians and potential librarians get some idea of what working as a librarian is [...]

    Rate This: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

photo by Beth Tribe

Tip Jar


Like what you read? Feel free to tip as little or as much as you like .
Help keep this site ad free

Books


Archives

Feel free to quote blog posts and link back to the site. Please do not copy my entire post on your site. Thank you
Creative Commons License