Posts tagged librarydayinthelife

As we tick over into the last half an hour of the day and I am a cup of tea and a slice of Cherry cake (it had fruit in it!) happier, the last of my afternoon goes as follows:

• Go back to earlier co-worker question which involves Yahoo! Pipes. Wrangle with it, manage to somehow fix it. Or, uh, used my l33t systems librarian skillz to cause miracle. Yes. *shifty eyes*
• Write notes for tomorrow’s meeting with additional metrics suggestions and the important (as far as I’m concerned) points of today’s haul of possible chat services
• Run the backups of our MySQL databases
• Clear out spam followers on library twitter account
• Remind myself that I’m on the enquiry desk first thing in the morning
• Take mug back to cafe so it’s waiting in the morning
• Flee building for food shopping and then home

Shortly I will make a break for the café for tea (and possibly a cake.) but productiveness abounds, honest.

• Had a further, in-depth phone conversation with Gillian from SAC about their chat service, which is starting to look ideal. Thank you again, Gillian for taking the time out to chat about it!
• Emailed the Customer Services Librarian about the possible new options and discussed further topics for our meeting
• Answered a few tech questions for other members of the library team and was stumped by one of them
• Suggested a few free online alternates for paid services to another library’s librarian, hopefully they helped!

A break for lunch (home grown salad defended from my slug nemesis, boiled eggs, tomatoes and some artichoke hearts from the work cafe’s new range. Nom!) and my day continues thus:

• Finished answering emails - inbox cheerfully empty, hooray!
• Started looking at alternate IM services for our ‘ask a librarian’ chat service - we’re currently trialling with Meebo - which included a nice chat with Elaine from the SAC Library about their system.
• Arranged a meeting with our Customer Services Librarian about our internal stats database, the quick stats we gather and what metrics we could add in the future.
• Checked that Wednesday’s RSS training attendee is still happy with the time/date and location of her training. Must go over training notes and add a few new things.

Library Day in the Life Round #5 today! I’m a systems librarian, working in a health library in London. My morning thus far:

• Sorted out a recalcitrant Athens login verification email issue for one of the new researchers, made mental note to run Athens stats and see what we can add to our metrics collection.
• Greatly regretted wearing beautiful new shoes to work sans back up flats! Coffee run was slightly dangerous but required!
• Cleared the weekend backlog of library and IT related feeds from feed reader and Outlook and updated the Top Ten IT/ILS News feed
• Sorted out Enquiry Desk rota shifts for the week
• Reduced inbox back to ‘things that must be answered’, deleted or shifted anything else to relevant folders.