2010 #libday4

January 26, 2010 · Posted in A Day in the Life of a Librarian · View Comments

I took these notes today as part of The Day in the Life project, if you would like to read more please see the wiki, if you’re interested in how it all got started read this post

My title is Digital Branch Manager, I work for system that serves 4 counties with 8 branches (9 counting mine).

In the morning before work with coffee in hand I turn on my PC to check Facebook, Twitter & my gmail account.

I see a trackback to my transliteracy page so I check out the post, Sunday Night Ponderance from Andy Woodworth. I leave a comment with my 2 cents and resolve to finish the new transliteracy slideshow by the end of the week so I can post it next Monday.

I proof read my post on the echo chamber, set to publish later in the day.

First thing I do at work is review my notes from last Friday and create the day’s to-do list.
I then proceed to:

update the website including adding job seekers page, created by staff
hand out monkeys
email director about borrowing her nook to make videos on using ebooks
check on day in the life – wow! holy hash tag on twitter!
work on Kiwanis club presentation for Tuesday. 15 minutes to talk about digital services.
answer a lot of emails
sketch out plans to do screen-casts of downloading Overdrive ebooks & eaudiobooks
turn in an invoice to be paid

At 3:30 I’m driven home by terrible headache blame attempts to kick my diet pepsi habit. I rest until 6:30 then time to get back to it. I put the tea kettle on and:

check gmail, answer & send emails
response to blog comments
peruse #libday4 tag on twitter, realize so many people are participating there is no way I can keep up and respond to all of them.
looked a pool on flickr
looked at Davids post on foursquare. Realize despite having no interest in anyone knowing exactly where I am ever, I should check it out. I sign up for an account and install it on my Pre. It can’t find my location. awesome. I give up and get back to work on my presentation for Kiwanis.
chat with another libraryland person about the connection between place of employment and personal blogs.
chat with a different person about upcoming interview & give what tips I can
text back and forth with yet another person about transliteracy

At 10 I turn off the computer and phone and put in some down time before bed.

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Library Day in the Life Round 4, January 2010

January 7, 2010 · Posted in A Day in the Life of a Librarian · View Comments

butterfly, because its pretty

Yes it’s that time again, time to start thinking about participating in the Library Day in the Life Project. Will you blog, Twitter, take photos, or show video? or some combination of all?

For those of you not familiar with the project in a nutshell library works of all types document a day or a week of their work life. You can check out the original blog post, my explanation of why I do it, or the wiki for more info.

Due to the high number of participants in July 2009 I’ve made some changes to the wiki hopefully will create a little order for those trying to follow along. I moved the previous list off the front page to its own page. I created a new page for Round 4 January 2010 and added a number column to the table.

I also made some changes to the format based on my observations from the last round.

Include your job title & type of library in your blog post or video to help readers
For the Twitters a hash tag for #libday4 (if you have a better one let me know, speak now or forever hold your peace).

Round 4 of the Library Day in the Life Project will begin on January 25th 2010. Any one who works in a library can participate. You may share your day (or week) on your blog, Twitter, Flickr and/or YouTube (or any other way you choose. If you have none of these don’t worry, just create a new page in the wiki and post your day there. Once you decided on your format(s)

Create a PB Wiki account (it’s free)!
Add your name, your job title (so we can see what you do at a glance) and a link to your blog, Twitter, Flickr and/or YouTube account to the wiki.
Start capturing your day.
1. Include your job title and the type of library you work in at the beginning of your post.
2. Include a link back to the wiki
Bloggers, Flickr & YouTube users tag your posts with librarydayinthelife. Twitters use the #libday4
After your first post come back and edit this page to change your blog link to a link to your tagged posts. please link directly to your day in the life post(s) and not to your blog in general.
Add your Flickr photos or videos to the Group on Flickr

Check out posts from some of the previous participants

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Day in the life of a Librarian Day 4

July 31, 2009 · Posted in A Day in the Life of a Librarian · View Comments

Thursday was a rather unremarkable day for me, so I’ll spare you most of the details

Checked email, tried to post notes from Day in the Life, but thanks to Dreamhost my site has been down most of the week. Unhappy does not do justice to my mood about this.

Got to work, talked with IT, we’re using the multimedia room for the Handheld Librarian conference later today and I’ve never used it before and wanted to be sure I set everything up correctly. Also gave me a chance to ask the staff member to be a part of Super Friends, I’d be missing her all week. She said yes – excellent now we have one member of IT on board.

Room set up and then back to my office. A staff member brought me peaches! Lots to do today but a lot of time will be taken up with Handheld. Spent most of my day in the Multimedia room for the Conference, we had some trouble getting in as I understand a lot of people did.

Wrote a post on my blog for library staff

Took the boys for a long walk even though it was sprinkling the whole time, we all enjoyed it!

Worked out, ate dinner and read

Tags: <day, digital branch, librarian, library, librarydayinthelife, Life, manager, work>

Day in the Life of a Librairan Day 3

July 30, 2009 · Posted in A Day in the Life of a Librarian · View Comments

I took these notes today as part of The Day in the Life project, if you would like to read more please see the wiki, if you’re interested in how it all got started read this post

Stayed up way too late reading the night before (I guess you never grow out of this!), so really need the coffee this morning!

First thing in the morning, prepare for and attend Branch Manager meeting at our Mildred L. Terry Branch. Its our newest one, we haven’t even had the grand opening ceremony yet. This meeting took up most of the morning so go look at the pictures of the branch for something fun!

Grab something to eat on the way back my office

check email, check twitter

Teen Programs Meeting – I’m there to find out what they need/want from a Digital Branch, good information

Run downstairs between meetings to check on something for tomorrow, run into a staff member I want to be a member of Super Friends, talk with him about it, he’s in! Hurray!

Database Committee Meeting- we’re looking at what we have and what we need to add over the next year. It goes really well.

Grab peaches on the way home. I am really tired tonight and decide this should be my night away from the computer, I make myself take one once a week.

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