I love the Library Day in the Life project. So, after a particularly intense week, I thought it was time to post on the topic again. This is what the week was like for an Instructional Design Librarian at my library:
Monday
- Started off with a morning with a casual meeting with some of my favorite instructional technology folks at UNCG and NCSU. I co-coordinated with Beth Filar Williams and we had everyone meet in the new Starbucks at my library. The morning extended into lunch and into the early afternoon.
- The rest of afternoon was filled with short meetings and follow up from the morning meeting.
Tuesday
- Tuesday morning was all about assessment. I’m on the library’s assessment taskforce, and we met to go over some of the data that I was able to pull out of our assessment tool. We talked about the format the data needs to be in for the team heads, and I’m going to get that done before their next meeting (early next week).
- Tuesday afternoon kicked off what I think of as “tech camp.” Giz Womack and I taught six 90 minute technology sessions over three days this week. For this reason, from 1:30-5:00 we were in classes Tuesday-Thursday. I taught a session introducing Web 2.0 as a concept. Giz taught one on social networking. He focused on using active learning techniques, so we both did a lot of one-on-one guidance.
Wednesday
- Kicked off with a librarian assembly meeting, hearing about the transition to faculty status.
- I know I had some kind of impromptu meeting, but honestly can’t remember what on.
- We had a TED Talk lunch, but ended up talking more about the future of the library website than watching a talk.
- Helped with Giz’s tech camp session on Google applications.
- Gave a tech camp session on ZSR hosted blogs, wikis, and podcasts. Two of the professors are very interested in incorporating them into their next classes!
Thursday
- Came to work and saw some of the fire doors were down. It turns out, lighting struck on Wednesday night leaving us with just a little power. One wing of the library was without lights or wireless. We gathered around places with power to get our work done.
- I had a Net Neutrality talk scheduled for that morning, so I had been cramming on the subject as much as I could. We got to the new room (we had to move because the scheduled room was without lights) and very few people who were scheduled came. I chalked it up to the challenges we were all dealing with, so we talked a little bit and then decided to reschedule the formal talk for a better time.
- Had a fun and informative lunch with some colleagues.
- Headed back for the last day of the tech camp. Giz did a session on using Web 2.0 to get content (RSS, iGoogle, Google pages, podcast aggregator, etc) and I helped as I was needed.
- My talk, on Instructional Design and Web 2.0, had a small number of people signed up for it. People had different interests, so I scheduled some one-on-one meetings to target specific needs, and chatted a little about instructional technology.
Friday
- Power was still out for most of the day.
- Mailed off a piece of writing I’ve been working on.
- Participated in Strategic Planning meeting on IT and Information (University committee, really interesting stuff there!)
- Chatted with a faculty member about how technology can be enhanced with some of the tools available to them. I’m going to work with them a bit more on this. It’s very exciting stuff!
- Had lunch with a friend from another local library. I love chatting with her, we talked about all kinds of fascinating things, from professional organizations, future of libraries, professional involvement. It’s always a great time.
- Spent the afternoon talking one-on-one with a few folks about specific projects, following up on a few things from earlier meetings, and looking through my todo list of things that hadn’t been done to see what was important enough that I’d need to do it this weekend, and what could wait for Monday.
I had a few other things going on in the background: writing projects, a presentation I’m beginning to think about, and a taskforce that’s active right now. And I didn’t have a lot of time at work to prepare for all of this week’s presentations, so it was a week of 2:00 evenings and being constantly “on.” Now it’s all wrapped up, though, so I’m having a remarkably relaxing weekend, and am planning for lots of fun. Whew! Next week, according to the calendar at least, will be nothing like this last one. 
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