Tuesday - Library Day in the Life
2009 July 28
I’m on the night shift tonight, but I ran across two interesting links in my morning ramblings. Looking for a cocktail to serve at your lawn party this weekend? Try the Darien Librarian. Yumm, whiskey. Chris pointed out Bibliotherapy to me - ‘just what I’ve been looking for’ - but don’t librarians do this for free? It does look deeper than simple reader’s advisory… maybe we should do it?
- 12:30p: Arrive.
- Review emails and voice mails. Review final draft of the City’s web site content policy and requests for Library exemptions.
- Check on a public computer that didn’t come back up after yesterday’s stormy power flicker. Report dead computer to city IT.
- Report another software problem to Userful.
- 1:20p: Tackle the stimulus application. [I had been hoping to do something more exciting for my readers, but boss lady wants to review my progress on Thursday. Better have something to show!] Deal with interruptions:
- Contacted Leslie Poston [@geechee_girl] to invite her to come talk about Twittering for Dummies.
- Fax invoice for new monitors to City IT.
- Make copies of the class materials for tonight’s Intro to the Internet.
- Make plans to celebrate Brian’s birthday tomorrow.
- 4:15p: Break before dinner to write piece for the newsletter about Twitter program.
- 4:30p: Home for dinner - cuke salad and curried eggplant.
- 5:30p: Greet our volunteer and help her set up the laptops for tonight’s class.
- 5:40p: Have to leave the volunteer to help a patron connect to our wireless network.
- 6:30p: Flip that the wireless thing took a whole hour. Send a trouble file to vendor for bug investigations.
- 6:40p: Go back down to the computer class to replace the cable on the projector. Then return to trouble shooting the file for a vendor.
- 7:15p: Send file and hang my neato computer hardware chart poster.
- 7:20p: Return to the stimulus… for five minutes. Then comfort a staff member whose cat died today.
- 7:45p: Another attempt at the stimulus.
- 8:30p: Collect money from registers and close the building.
See you 9/29
