Monday – Library Day in the Life Project
2009 July 27
I am a little slow on the uptake here, not sure how it got away from me. But I’m always up for some navel-gazing and I have a fairly decent memory so I’ll participate in the Library Day in the Life Project 2009. If I understand correctly I’m supposed to live blog every day this week.
- 8:15a: Say a brief hello to my VISTA who is spending the year organizing a staff training program.
- 8:25a: Leave almost immediately to go to a City IT department meeting.
- 9am: Meet briefly with the Director regarding our stimulus application.
- 9:30a: Escorted technician to a sick computer.
- 9:15a: Crack open the tome that is the stimulus application. Spend the next three hours filling out the first three pages.
- 12:30p: Rush home for lunch and spend 20 minutes reading Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare (good stuff).
- 1:30p: Back to work and begin the executive summary for the stimulus application.
- 3p: Can’t write more. Start reviewing the technology inventory my Page has been doing and begin making a list of tasks for him for Wednesday.
- 3:30p: Start worrying about my presentation to the Board of Trustees. Months ago they asked how many publicly accessible workstations we ‘should’ have, the information didn’t exist so I did an informal benchmarking study.
- 4p: Join the Trustee meeting and present the results. Conclusion: we are at the low end of the range of the appropriate number of computers.
- 5:15p: Leave the meeting just in time for the power to flicker in the middle of a fantastic thunderstorm. Canvas the building to be sure the computers come back up.
- 5:30p: Head home.
