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A Week in My Library Life

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 [...]

What a Week

Some weeks are crazier than others, and last week was certainly that for me. I’m still catching up with email, and just now getting my feet on the ground. Even with that, it’s awesome to get so much taken care of in such a short amount of time. In the spirit of A Day In [...]

An Instruction Kindof Week

I got in from ALA on Tuesday, and pretty much have planned classes and taught nonstop since then. In lieu of a really good series of Day In The Life posts, I’m summarizing here:
Wednesday:
I forgot about Midwinter when I agreed to work the reference shift that evening. I also forgot about the evening shift when [...]

Tuesday at Midwinter

Tuesday was my last day of the conference. The Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship meets that day in case there are any motions or presentations to council to prepare. As it turns out, we did have one. The Caregiving Taskforce faced a few issues, so the chair went before Council to let [...]

Monday at Midwinter

One of the weirdest things about ALA, to me, is that a bulk of the work happens on the weekend. So on Saturday and Sunday we’re running about, going to meetings and working a 12+ hour day. I check email through the day, but hardly anything comes in to my work account because it’s the [...]