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Day in the Life of a Librairan Day 3

July 30, 2009

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

Day in the Life of Me – Day 2

July 28, 2009

By Bobbi Newman

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 Wake up before the alarm, whats up with that? Coffee, email, Twitter, Facebook Discovered email response from a comment I left on a Day in the Life blog last night asking about the recipe for roasted peach ice cream – hurray! I will SO be making this this weekend Check calendar and weather before leaving for work, only one meeting, lets hope it stays that way, and its supposed to rain, scrap original outfit that include purple suede pumps (suede and rain are not friends) Add a couple of things to my Alice.com shopping list, hope I get to 6 (free shipping for 6 or more items) before I run out of contact solution. I’ve used Alice.com twice and so far I love it, I compared prices on my first order to Target and Alice was cheaper on everything but canned dog food. Plus using it keeps me out of Target and away from impulse buys, that’s a money saving win right there. Arrive at work,

A day in the Life of a Librarian – Day 1

July 27, 2009

By Bobbi Newman

A day in the Life of a Librarian – Day 1

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 First some background info: I’m the Digital Branch Manager at the Chattahoochee Valley Libraries in Columbus Georgia. This is a brand new position that started when I did, May 18th. I’d share my job description but it’s changing everyday. Basically its my job to move the library from a website to a digital branch mentality. There is a lot more involved with that than just planning a new site. We have 8 branches (mine will be the 9th when it goes live) in 4 counties. That is a huge community to serve and a lot of people to introduce to the ideas behind a digital branch. So here is a look at my average week, I have absolutely no doubt it will be very different in 6 months and very different 6 months after that. 6:00 – get up make coffee, check email for emergencies, check Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook for anything that needs a response now. Check vanity feed. 8:00 arrived at work, check voicemail, one

ALA 2009 wrap up

July 16, 2009

By Bobbi Newman

I survived my first ALA! It was intense and exhilorating and tiring, but worth every minute of it. When I return from conferences there are always a lot of thoughts rolling around and it takes me about a week to solidify everything. But here are the things that really stuck with me and what I’m thinking about. Expect to see at least some of these as full blog posts when I’ve got my thoughts in line. You may not have signed up for this job but it’s the job you have deal with it admins and managers let your staff go, the worse that could happen is that you have a failed project you learn something from these technologies are not a magic wand, you shouldn’t just have a blog to have a blog, you need to do what your community needs, have a plan a strategy, don’t just jump in without knowing where you’re going how long have we had computers? Why do you still have staff who are intimidated by computers, why did you hire them? Why are they still working there? we don’t have any problem doing what we’ve always done, but if we don’t do anything

What Reading (Listening) Do You Recommend for a Leadership Program?

June 24, 2009

By Bobbi Newman

What Reading (Listening) Do You Recommend for a Leadership Program?

My library has a leadership program and we were asked to recommend books, journals articles blogs blogposts podcasts whatever with an annotation preferably, on any topic relevant to leadership, management, customers service or other topic we think would be helpful to participants. I went through my favorites of the last couple of years and came up with these: Predictably Irrational, The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions Outliers: The Story of Success Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable The Myth of Multitasking: How What do you recommend? 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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