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Library Day in the Life – Monday Day 3

January 27, 2009
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Library Day in the Life – Monday Day 3

I took these notes today as part of The Day in the Life project, if you would like to read more please the wiki, if you’re interested in how it all got started read this post and this one. I’m off work at the Library today because I worked the weekend.   7:00 coffee time!  I take the dogs out, man it’s cold! I check my email, Friendfeed and return some comments from Facebook yesterday. 8:30 sign into Blackboard to finish reading posts, complete grades for this week. 9:30 I get ready to run errands.  Lots to do today! First stop, my local library (not where I work) to return a couple of videos and pick up Season 2 Vol 1 of Alias, I’m rewatching the series.  Then on to check out a new (to me) gym.  My old one closed.  It looks really nice, so I’ll be going back at the end of the week to sign up. I do some grocery shopping and somehow end up with more than I’d planned on getting. 12:00 back home put away groceries, and make lunch – brussels sprouts! 1:00 sit down to work on a workshop I’ll be presenting in Minnesota in April. 4:00

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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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Thursday Part 1- A Day in the Life of a Librarian

July 17, 2008
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Thursday- Another late day.  In the morning I check all my email accounts from home, nothing major happening so I head to the gym.  I’m in the office at 12:30, first things first check my voicemail Message about needing stats on Computer classes for board meeting I find them and hand deliver.  I pop in my bosses office to talk about the Computer Classes are going and the stats for them.  I need to get started writing the final report for the grant that allowed us to get the laptops and have the classes.  In the interested of full disclosure, unfortunately I became pretty ill last Thursday and had to leave work.  I’m going to document my day today as replacement and I’ll publish it late tonight.  Sorry for the delay! I took these notes last Thursday as part of The Day in the Life project, if you’re interested in reading more or documenting your own day, please add your name to the wiki. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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