{"id":176,"date":"2009-08-05T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2009-08-05T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T09:24:00","slug":"belated-day-in-the-life-of-a-librarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/belated-day-in-the-life-of-a-librarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated day-in-the-life of a librarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t do this at the same time as everyone else for a few reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>when it was announced, I was off sick with flu (my brother calculates that, statistically speaking, it was probably swine flu, so that&#8217;s exciting) so my day-in-the-life post would have been &#8220;spent the day catching up with a week&#8217;s worth of emails and blog posts&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>only a month ago we learned that we have to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.libr.canterbury.ac.nz\/eng.php?itemid=8331\">merge two of our branches between now and the start of next year<\/a> so I&#8217;ve been feeling too busy to write anything<\/li>\n<li>it would have been awkward to write about a day in my life when those things were all related to this merger that hadn&#8217;t been fully announced to our users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But I have been keeping brief notes of my days for a few weeks now on <a href=\"http:\/\/memiary.com\/\">Memiary<\/a> as a way to reassure myself, &#8220;See, I did accomplish something today,&#8221; so I can recreate these now:<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an average of two hours a week on the desk on top of these.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mon 27 Jul 2009<\/b><br \/>   1. Attempt to catch up after sick leave.<br \/>   2. Set up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.korero.maori.nz\/news\/mlw\">Te Wiki o te Reo M\u0101ori<\/a> display.<br \/>   3. Reply to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uclibrary#\/uclibrary?v=feed&#038;story_fbid=107804298686&#038;ref=mf\">Facebook comment re selling textbook<\/a> and set up a discussion topic.<br \/>   4. Attend meeting re merger.<br \/>   5. Make blogpost about Knovel title of the week.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tue 28 Jul 2009<\/b><\/p>\n<p>   1. Caught up blogs.<br \/>   2. Weeded more.<br \/>   3. Worked on merger communication plan.<br \/>   4. Arranged to meet colleague in another department.<\/p>\n<p><b>Wed 29 Jul 2009<\/b><\/p>\n<p>   1. Met with manager re merger communications.<br \/>   2. Weeded duplicates from TN.<br \/>   3. Desk shifts, virtual reference.<\/p>\n<p>(Thursday I seem to have been too busy to make notes.  It probably involved desk shifts, weeding, weeding while on the desk, and stand-up meetings at the desk about weeding.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Fri 31 Jul 2009<\/b><\/p>\n<p>   1. Finished Facebook launch report for library leadership team.<br \/>   2. Facebook event housekeeping.<br \/>   3. Weeded in TAs. And continued.<br \/>   4. Lunch meeting.<br \/>   5. First blog post re merger.<\/p>\n<p>This week is continuing fairly similarly for me but with an added booksale of the books that we&#8217;ve been weeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t do this at the same time as everyone else for a few reasons: when it was announced, I was off sick with flu (my brother calculates that, statistically speaking, it was probably swine flu, so that&#8217;s exciting) so my day-in-the-life post would have been &#8220;spent the day catching up with a week&#8217;s worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[128,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}