{"id":41,"date":"2009-07-31T20:45:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T20:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yobj.net\/notablog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2009-07-31T20:45:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T20:45:34","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-bibliographic-systems-librarian-part-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yobj.net\/notablog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"A day in the life of a bibliographic systems librarian, part five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In where I actually get to do more of the &#8220;systems&#8221; part of my job&#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Friday<\/p>\n<p>7:15 am \u2013 bike to work, clean up, boot computer, start making jasmine tea<\/p>\n<p>7:30 am \u2013 launched tweetdeck, Pandora, read gmail, feeds, and other things.\u00a0 Minions either on vacation or at work<\/p>\n<p>7:35 am \u2013 the computer is very slow today<\/p>\n<p>7:40 am \u2013 started tea consumption. Minion letting me know that there\u2019s another 250 or so books coming our way for receipt cataloging<\/p>\n<p>7:48 am \u2013 checked and backed up wiki<\/p>\n<p>7:54 am \u2013 checked work email and calendar<\/p>\n<p>8:08 am \u2013 time to start on the monthly report<\/p>\n<p>8:27 am \u2013 finished monthly report. Time for blueberry muffins<\/p>\n<p>8:43 am \u2013 successfully invaded Information Services department and acquired blueberry muffins. Also had the chance to look over the second edition of Who\u2019s Who in Hell. Back to emails<\/p>\n<p>9:09 am \u2013 Worked on OhioLINK errors report<\/p>\n<p>9:13 am \u2013 EGL-IUG proposal due today. Need to start refining program proposal<\/p>\n<p>9:23 am \u2013 the interwebz are slow today. Checked to see if there are any system outages or problems that the dept should know about<\/p>\n<p>9:37 am \u2013 looks like IT is updating Windows stuff. Probably why things are slow right now. Sent proposal to EGL \u2013IUG. Look over weekly stats\u2026<\/p>\n<p>9:41 am \u2013 Need to figure out a way to rework stats SQL queries. Previous databases are not updating and current databases are not displaying the correct information. Crack open Filezilla, phpMyAdmin and notepad++<\/p>\n<p>9:54 am \u2013 w00t! I have one major SQL query pulling the right information. Now to work on the other 15 or so<\/p>\n<p>10:00 am \u2013 banana and 15 min mandatory break<\/p>\n<p>10:15 am \u2013 back from break. Checked feeds and then back to SQL hacking<\/p>\n<p>10:15 am \u2013 printer refused to print. Smacked printer, now works<\/p>\n<p>11:44 am \u2013 have the first php stats page fixed. Cleaning up records that have missing CAT DATE dates<\/p>\n<p>12:00 pm \u2013 lunch!<\/p>\n<p>12:57 pm \u2013 back early from lunch. Futzing with re-tooled stats and SQL<\/p>\n<p>2:23 pm \u2013 almost done with the futzing. Switched Pandora to \u201cTek-no\u201d radio<\/p>\n<p>2:30 pm \u2013 employee has mysterious pop-up asking for her password. Trying to figure out what\u2019s going on\u2026<\/p>\n<p>2:49 pm \u2013 login to another database is broken. Fun times on a Friday afternoon\u2026<\/p>\n<p>3:05 pm \u2013 fixed stats problem the best I could. 15 min mandatory break<\/p>\n<p>3:17 pm \u2013 back from break. Checked feeds and email<\/p>\n<p>3:43 pm \u2013 last challenge for the day \u2013 broken logins. Switch Pandora to Power Metal station<\/p>\n<p>3:56 pm \u2013 requested access to former co-worker\u2019s server space. The file that is causing the login problem lives there, and I need access to it. Going back to emails to clean out the inbox before I go home for the weekend<\/p>\n<p>4:25 pm \u2013 Oh look a book\u2026 going through professional lit books piled high on my shelf\u2026<\/p>\n<p>4:50 pm \u2013get items around for next week<\/p>\n<p>5:00 pm \u2013 out to dinner with some library peeps :c)<\/p>\n<p>~fin~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In where I actually get to do more of the &#8220;systems&#8221; part of my job&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,9,11],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-job","tag-librarian","tag-librarydayinthelife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yobj.net\/notablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yobj.net\/notablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yobj.net\/notablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yobj.net\/notablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yobj.net\/notablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yobj.net\/notablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yobj.net\/notablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yobj.net\/notablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yobj.net\/notablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}