{"id":30,"date":"2009-07-27T20:42:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T20:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yobj.net\/notablog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2009-07-27T20:42:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T20:42:48","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-bibliographic-systems-librarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yobj.net\/notablog\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"A day in the life of a bibliographic systems librarian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second round of Library Day in the Life<\/a> started today. Here is the raw, unedited script of a day of my life at work.<\/p>\n

Just another manic Monday…<\/p>\n


\n7:09 am \u2013 arrived early at work via bike (I blame my sister), clean self up, start making jasmine tea
\n7:20 am \u2013 boot the computer, go through twitter, gmail, and rss feeds, fire up the Pandora client to new age radio
\n7:24 am \u2013 Hmmmm\u2026. Day in the life of a librarian. Let\u2019s try this out
\n7:30 am \u2013 tea consumption, minions dutifully come into work bright eyed and bushy tailed
\n7:40 am \u2013 Check dept wiki and calendar
\n7:43 am \u2013 Check work email and calendar
\n7:43:15 am \u2013 It\u2019s going to be a long morning
\n7:44 am \u2013 adjust calendar alarms for meetings today
\n7:46 am \u2013 mental note to self \u2013 write conference presentation proposal
\n7:50 am \u2013 checked in with minions, continue with email reading and responding
\n8:07 am \u2013 checked out presentations posted online at http:\/\/www.personal.kent.edu\/~mbmaurer\/TEDSIG2009_000.html
\n8:10 am \u2013 too early in the morning to see raw marc records
\n8:13 am \u2013 checked to see if planet toc cronjob ran. Yep :c) Google Reader and Outlook both updated. Bloglines didn\u2019t update – again. Grrr
\n8:14 am \u2013worked on dup reports \u2013 still too early in the morning to work with marc records\u2026
\n8:22 am \u2013 sent email to serials person to determine mystery code that is causing some trouble
\n8:24 am \u2013 reset due dates for article proposal reminders, send in monthly leave report
\n8:30 am \u2013 worked on planet toc RSS list. Trying to find out which print serials route to which librarian
\n8:36 am \u2013 III refused to print routing lists. Grrr. Bypassing problem by alt+print scrn
\n8:53 am \u2013 finished with print screens. Prepare for meeting #1
\n9:00 am \u2013 meeting #1
\n9:51 am \u2013 meeting #1 done. Checked email. Found OhioLINK Error report. Time to fix more records\u2026
\n9:57 am \u2013 stomach growling. Banana and mandated 15 min break
\n10:14 am \u2013 back from break. Checked twitter, rss feeds, emails
\n10:21 am \u2013 time to approve timesheets
\n10:30 am \u2013 meeting #2
\n10:46 am \u2013 meeting #2 done. Checked email. Emailed employee to set up receipt cataloging training time for today or tomorrow
\n10:51 am \u2013 time to start working on the epic email assigned at meeting #1, switched Pandora to Chant radio
\n11:37 am \u2013 sent draft of epic email. Catching up on emails sent during drafting. Confirmed training time with employee. Helped co-worker test out a voting system (still buggy)
\n11:42 am \u2013 opened and read new classified staff employment manual from the Dean.
\n12:00 pm \u2013 Lunch!
\n1:00 pm \u2013 officially back to work (even though I\u2019ve been reading emails\/feeds\/tweets during the break). Received edited draft of epic email back from dept. head. Fixing it up to send to the Dean of Libraries
\n1:06 pm \u2013 Sent epic email to the Dean. Now to tabulate the routing list to see if any of the routed journals that do not have RSS feeds available have a substantial following. Screenshots away!
\n1:07 pm \u2013 interruption: minion database maintenance update. 500 in a list of 4000 problem MARC records completed. Progress report: records are messy, but not hopeless
\n1:22 pm \u2013 Turned out that the routing list from III does not match the one we keep separately. Added additional RSS feeds to planet toc and ran python file for update
\n1:35 pm \u2013 W00t! No 503 errors during the update! Prepare for meeting #3
\n2:00 \u2013 meeting #3
\n2:15 \u2013 meeting #3 done. Found full text access to a journal previously thought not to have FT access. Time to fix that one. Switched Pandora to \u201cI miss the 80s\u201d radio.
\n2:27 pm \u2013 searching for more hidden FT access\u2026
\n2:31 pm \u2013 Receipt cataloging problem: book had incorrect bib record attached to order record. Forwarded to Acquisitions Librarian to address order record issue
\n2:37 pm \u2013 checked email. Begged and pleaded for an OLINK staff login, which I have been requesting for about a year now through various venues
\n2:52 pm \u2013 back to searching for more hidden FT access\u2026 only to be interrupted by another email with an update on the new library website
\n3:00 pm \u2013 mandatory 15 min break
\n3:10 pm \u2013 snuck in email to usability study principle investigator about the possibility of getting a help page up for the new OPAC
\n3:17 pm \u2013 off to help a co-worker set up her PBWorks and Google Calendar accounts to access the work wiki and calendar
\n3:38 pm \u2013 done with set up. Now back to RSS feeds. Found another one!
\n3:51 pm \u2013 I have an OLINK login! YAY!
\n4:15 pm \u2013 redid routing list that lists what we have available for RSS and FT
\n4:25 pm \u2013 talked to dept. head about revised routing list
\n4:40 pm – answered the last emails for the day. Set up items to work on for tomorrow
\n5:00 pm – bike home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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