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Library Day in the Life - January 28, 2011

Page history last edited by Gina Persichini 13 years, 2 months ago

Telecommuting today.

 

8:00 am           Arrived.

 

Wait, I thought I was going to telecommute?  I am, but I’m telecommuting the first part of the day from my OLD house, where the carpeting will be replaced.  I’m set up at the old kitchen table (it needs a new home, any takers?) in the old house. No wi-fi, but email access via my phone.  I did a quick scan of that mail and then hunkered down with the list of tasks and follow-up items I listed during yesterday’s LiLI meeting. 

 

Then I tackle email – Outlook.  I went on vacation late in 2010 and had just 7 items in my Inbox the day I left.  Today there are 352. My goal is to whittle down that number.  Doing so while offline is nice.  I can save/file what needs to be saved, delete what needs to be deleted and deal with what needs still to be dealt with.

 

9:30 am           Cleaning

 

Email inbox down to 143. Progress.  Still going….

 

10:25 am         Moving on

 

302 email messages processed.  With just 50 in my inbox, I’m feeling better, if not downright giddy about the progress.  Sure, I spent 2 hours doing it, but I have a pile of responses ready to go the next time I have a network connection; a number of things are filed away; more are deleted. And, hopefully, when I log in to my email on Monday, I won’t have one of those warning from the system telling me my mailbox exceeds the size limit.

 

Time to revisit the RFP draft.  I have comments back from Division of Purchasing, comments from the State Librarian, our fiscal officer, and the web team.  Time to make edits and get another draft so we can release it next week.

 

11:45 pm         Relocation

 

I relocated to Locavore, a local restaurant in my neighborhood with awesome food using local ingredients, good background music, and free wifi.  I not sure which business’s wifi I’m using because the one with the strongest signal wasn’t named in any way identifiable with a business.  I’ll take what I can get.  It’s just a quick check online then back to my RFP draft while I wait for my order.

 

RFP current draft edits are done. Browsed through the most recent issue of American Libraries enjoy a nice intro to small libraries for the new library director, and back home for my favorite telecommuting location – the counter/bar by the kitchen. It has electricity, wifi, hot tea, and the option to stand while I work.

 

2:00 pm           Misc Stuff

 

  • Reviewed draft of press release for colleague
  • Did some follow up with a support staff person who took a call from an angry user. She handled it right; I wanted her and her supervisor to know that.
  • Send an update with highlights of yesterday’s meeting to all staff with acknowledgements to the many people who make the meeting happen.  It’s a smooth meeting, and only because a bunch of staff do their thing so goes that way.
  • Scanned some papers that were information pieces so I’d at least be aware of what’s happening in the world.
  • Wished I was done working; made more tea; answered more emails… trying to keep the inbox number down.

 

3:19 pm           Cloud-sourcing

 

Reading the OCLC Research report, “Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment.”  Okay, I’m only reading the Executive Summary. They wouldn’t write them if they didn’t want us to make use of them, right?

 

3:36 pm           Perceptions of Libraries, 2010

 

Finishing out the rest of my day by starting to read OCLC’s newest report to the membership, “Perceptions of Libraries, 2010.” 

 

Uploading my Week-in-the-Life of a Librarian before I settle in with the report.

 

 

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