A Day in the Life of a Librarian

Library Day in the Life – Round Two?

January 7, 2009
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Library Day in the Life – Round Two?

Six months ago (almost to the day) I wrote the post that started the Library Day in the Life meme, which led to Lori Reed creating the wiki where people who participated signed up so we could share. Many of us actually post a weeks worth of days. There was some discussion of doing it again in six months, it was summer for the academics and for the rest of us things change so fast who know what six months forward would bring? It’s been six months, is anyone up for round two?  When should we start? I’m leaning toward January 26th for me.  That’s the next “normal” week I’ll have. Missed is the first time and want to know what is’ all about? The idea was to show the diversity of librarian and library positions and that we don’t all spend our days reading books   Check out these blogs: Library Trainer The strange Librarian Info Goddess Curious Child’s Library Wanderings Nirak.net: Musings of an LIS Student Ms. Dianna Lauren’s Library Blog ICFL Blog - A Day in the Life.. of a Neworking Consultant Web Chicken Jezmynne Librarians with Class We do that in Idaho Interrupt Driven 8nd1′s blog Preservation @ ZSR blog The Civil Librarian LSLC Training Ramble on Sylvie Annot8ions The Brewin’ Librarian Institutional Library Services Blog ellie <3 libraries So Many Books, So Little Time A Passion For ’Puters Kirsten 2.0Teatime LibrarianA day in the life… cybrgrl’s photolog Tombrarian

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I work with some amazing people!

August 7, 2008
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I know I could be busier but right now it’s hard to imagine how. Between the regular duties of my work week (including working this weekend) I’m putting finishing touches on the 4 day workshop on Web 2.0 that I’ll be teaching next week. Four days is a long time to talk, even for me, even as a cohost. Despite that I have to take some time to acknowledge some amazing coworkers. Our Collection Development Librarian / Reference Manager / Teen Services Manager has started blogging for the Day in the Life Project! She was first introduced to blogging back in Learning 2.0 so she had a blog, but didn’t really have a use for it. Yesterday we reviewed everything and she’s already started writing. I warned her it can be addictive! Several weeks ago our Humanities Program Coordinator / Librarian volunteered to make some videos to promote some of his movie programs. He hosts several movie series programs that are wildly popular, so a mini movie to promote his movies seems perfect. He shot this video at home on his own time! I know the sound is a bit faint, I’m not sure what to do about it. At

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Day in the life of a librarian – Summary

July 19, 2008
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As of writing this (10:30 am central time 7/19/08 ) there are over 30 people signed up on the wiki (thank you again Lori for having the smarts to make one!) I hope this can be an ongoing project with new people continuing to sign up and maybe people who participated now can do it again. I’ve read some really great posts and I’m not even though them all yet.  I do have to point out somone who took a different approach to the Project. One of the other Librarians at MPOW has agreed to do a series of guest posts about her week July 28th – August 1st.  She is our Collection Development Librarian, so you’ll be getting a completely different view of my work place. Some information that probably should have been included in my first post - My job title and what it means. I’m the Digital Services Librarian at the Missouri River Regional Library, a public library in the Midwest serving about 85,000 people.  So what does that mean?  You’ve seen from the posts what I do some days, here is a more official run down of my duties Identify, investigate, and use emerging technology to enable easy access to information Anticipate

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Friday & Saturday – days in the life of a librarian

July 18, 2008
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Friday Technically I’m off because I work this coming weekend.  I cleaned the apartment, cooked, went to the gym.  I also check  all email accounts and see a request from one of the other Librarians, she needs someone to cover the Reference Desk for her Monday, I was planning on taking Monday off, but I tell her if she can’t find anyone else I’ll do.  I end up doing it for her, which moves my day off to Friday Time to work on presentations!  I’m cohosting a 4 day workshop (pdf) coming up that is hosted by MOREnet & the Missouri State Library teaching Librarians about how they can use web 2.0 at their library.  We did a similar workshop in February and it was so popular that they asked us to come back and tripled our talk time.  I’ll be doing two presenations at our upcoming state library conference in October and even though it’s early I put some time into both of these.  I have three patron training classes left this year.  We’ve been doing series of classes including basic and advanced (I teach the advanced ones).  They have been really popular with the patrons.  I take a look at what

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Thursday part 2 – a day in the life of a libarian

July 17, 2008
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Thursday part 2 – a day in the life of a libarian

Thursday 7/17/08 7:30 coffee in hand I hit the computer to see what happened while I slept.  I check my email accounts, Twitter, & FriendFeed.  One of my Twitter friends lets me know the Day in the Life project made it into American Libraries Direct. Sweet! But I feel a bit nervous. 8:30 Now I’m just playing around, on the net, checking blogs etc.  I don’t have to be to work until 11 today, I work till 9pm tonight. 8:50 Time to get ready for work!  I’ll be back when I arrive at the library. 10:40 arrive in the office, check voicemail; I have a message from another librarian about a program he’s canceling.  I got his email about the same thing last night after I got home, so I’ve already updated the blog.  Turn on computer and get the blue screen of death. Not good.  I have to be at the Reference Desk in a few minutes and I don’t have time to deal with this so I head across the street to the main library building.  I chat with the Circulation Manager about what times they need me to fill in over there, since they are short staffed. 11:00 I’m at

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