As part of the Library Day in the Life event ….:
8:30 to 11:00 am:
- worked on the ref desk,
- tried to explain collection development to a records person,
- helped clients find books they wanted,
- got the wonderful question by telephone: “I am looking for a blue book about mining, but I don’t know the title or author”… Hmm, about 1/4 of the library I work in is mining focused … how to proceed … turns out it was a former co-worker trying to frustrate me (and it worked, ha ha)
11:00 to 12:15:
- reviewed agenda for annual library retreat (tomorrow),
- spoke with my boss (Director of Corporate Services) about the portions of the retreat he would be attending and participating in
12:15 to 1:15 pm:
- walked home, ate lunch, walked back to work
1:15 to 4:45′ish pm:
- assembled my notes for the retreat tomorrow
- debated which call # would be best for an item with colleagues
- dug out a network cable for netbook
- final research re: CISTI Source changing to Discover (CISTI) for retreat
- final research re: draft charter for my library to provide other Yukon Gov libraries with access to ILS and librarians
- basically, all the final stuff to get ready for our one-day big-picture brainstorming session tomorrow, otherwise known as a retreat.
2 responses so far ↓
Bobbi Newman // July 28, 2009 at 2:19 am |
I have laugh about the blue mining book. my standard joke is I’m looking for a blue book with a teacup on the cover and its about this big. I think myself or someone actually got this question years ago but now I only remember us joking about it.
aimee // July 28, 2009 at 8:32 pm |
I once had to catalogue a book series with an added entry for “red [editor's surname]” because one scientist never gave other staff the full citation but would regularly send them to “look it up in the red [surname]“, ha ha. Thank goodness MARC has some local use fields!