More epic emails! More meetings! <\/p>\n
Tuesday<\/p>\n
7:15 am \u2013 bike to work, clean up, start making genmai-cha, boot up computer<\/p>\n
7:25 am \u2013 launch Pandora client on new age radio, open and check tweetdeck, check gmail, feeds, other things<\/p>\n
7:30 am \u2013 minions come in wide awake<\/p>\n
7:40 am \u2013 check work email and calendar, start tea consumption<\/p>\n
7:43 am \u2013 check wiki<\/p>\n
7:47 am \u2013 fix entries on the wiki calendar<\/p>\n
7:53 am \u2013 start email to dept head with the news that III is going to compete with OCLC\u2019s cataloging bib utility. In addition, ask head for help with epic email part 2.<\/p>\n
8:00 am \u2013 minion update<\/p>\n
8:02 am \u2013 back to poking dept. head with news and email composition<\/p>\n
8:06 am \u2013 answer from yesterday regarding mystery duplicate code. Deleted dup code (yay easy fix)<\/p>\n
8:14 am \u2013 back to poking dept. head with news and email composition<\/p>\n
8:20 am \u2013 Employee lost password for wiki. Reset password. Back yet again to epic email part 2<\/p>\n
8:56 am \u2013 minion interruption: gave the supply order form a new home on the wiki<\/p>\n
9:05 am \u2013 half way done with epic email part 2. Yes, a very long, detailed email requires lots of research<\/p>\n
9:39 am \u2013 sent off draft of epic email part 2 to dept. head. Couple of minutes to recover, and then check email<\/p>\n
9:46 am \u2013 respond back to a statewide working group regarding training in a new ILS module<\/p>\n
9:47 am \u2013 panic call from employee who can\u2019t get into dept Google calendar. Resolved problem<\/p>\n
9:59 am \u2013 bad email address for one of the working group folks. Grrr<\/p>\n
10:04 am \u2013 bad email address solved, also resolved another panic call from employee about Google calendar. Banana and 15 min mandatory break<\/p>\n
10:15 am \u2013 break done. Received feedback on draft of epic email part 2. Revising and sending another draft<\/p>\n
10:20 am \u2013 draft #2 sent. Prepare for meeting #1 and reading OLE Project Final Report<\/p>\n
10:30 am \u2013 meeting #1<\/p>\n
11:30 am \u2013 meeting #1 done. Lots and lots of email to check<\/p>\n
11:35 am \u2013 add HR contact information on wiki per meeting #1<\/p>\n
11:38 am \u2013 respond back to statewide working group with more questions about ILS training<\/p>\n
11:42 am \u2013 checked in with the Google doc copy of an article I am collaborating on about outreach to international students. Note to self \u2013 touch up section about tech specs on video podcasting<\/p>\n
11:55 am \u2013 checked RSS feeds, sneaked in a lolcat or two<\/p>\n
12:00 pm \u2013 lunch!<\/p>\n
1:00 pm \u2013 officially back to work (even though I\u2019ve been reading emails and tweets for a while).\u00a0 Make the routing list all pretty like to give to dept. head to get the okay to send out planet toc beta feed to librarians list<\/p>\n
1:09 pm \u2013 got the revised draft back. Sent epic email part 2 to Dean. Crossing fingers<\/p>\n
1:30 pm \u2013 meeting #2<\/p>\n
2:05 pm \u2013 meeting #2 done. Continued work on routing list and email. Fished some information about hidden routed journals.<\/p>\n
2:14 pm \u2013 Why are we paying for something that we can get free online? Researching more and building argument to drop subscription<\/p>\n
2:30 pm \u2013 training session for receipt cataloging for employee<\/p>\n
2:57 pm \u2013 training session done. Mandatory 15 min break<\/p>\n
3:13 pm \u2013 back from \u201cbreak.\u201d Gave a \u201csure, go ahead\u201d to co-worker looking at newer PURL service<\/p>\n
3:15 pm \u2013 back to researching more and building argument to drop subscription<\/p>\n
3:37 pm \u2013 yeah, we really don\u2019t need to subscribe to that anymore. Sent email with evidence to dept. head<\/p>\n
3:48 pm \u2013 sent off routing list and email to dept. head for distribution to other librarians. W00t! Trying to find to-do list for next thing to do<\/p>\n
3:52 pm \u2013 deal with an issue that has been set on the back burner for a while. The XML file used to help catalog ETDs is broken in several ways. Time to go and try to fix as much as possible<\/p>\n
4:03 pm \u2013 XML problem one sent off to OhioLINK. Now to deal with problem two, which deals with file sizes<\/p>\n
4:07 pm \u2013 XML problem one solved!<\/p>\n
4:08 pm \u2013 got the go ahead from dept. head to send out planet toc beta feed and routing list to librarians. Send yet another email\u2026<\/p>\n
4:14 pm \u2013 started dealing with XML problem two<\/p>\n
4:28 pm \u2013 turned out that XML problem two was fixed before I got to it. It is fixed, but that doesn\u2019t tell me much about how to fix it in the future. Minion who catalogs ETD is now happy again<\/p>\n
4:30 pm \u2013 began playing around with III URL Checker to see if we can get better use out of it than we do now<\/p>\n
4:45 pm \u2013 wind down for the day, set up things to work on tomorrow<\/p>\n
5:00 pm \u2013 bike home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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