library day in the life: Tuesday

AM

• Meeting #1:  with 2 colleauges (Director, 21st Century Fluencies and Teaching & Learning Librarian) regarding our 21st Century Fluencies program. Worked on the document that describes the program.
• Meeting #2: with various colleagues about some user interface changes to the article database search on our website. Showed them the redesigned UI, got feedback, took copious notes on more changes needed before launch.

PM

• Lunch (not a whole lot different from yesterday)
• Log into meebo for an hour of IM reference. Answer 2 questions, both about course registration. At the same time, watch Howard Rheingold talk about 21st Century literacies (decent).
• Install Flashblock and ClicktoFlash to alleviate annoying resource hogging on the part of Flash. Swear I hear audible sighs of relief from both Firefox and Safari upon installation.
• Call vendor to discuss *cool new stuff* they’re going to do for us. Follow up by scheduling a meeting for him to brief project team on said cool new stuff next week.
• Pull together questions, comments, action-plan for mentoring meeting next.
• Meeting #3: mentoring meeting.
• Spend 30 minutes hiding out in dark, empty meeting room, catching up on email. Remember how much I love working in dark, empty meeting rooms.
• Review to-do list on way out of the library. Lament the general low productivity of this workday. Hope for large blocks of time tomorrow to Get Stuff Done.

Later PM

• Explore the Library Leadership Network (LLN), read a few articles, tag a couple for my LIS class. Berate self for not checking out LLN sooner, given that I am a big fan of Walt Crawford and he’s at the helm at LLN.
• Spend an hour configuring NetNewsWire on my iPhone for offline feed reading on-the-go. Wonder why it’s taken me so long to do so.
• Close computer to (get this) read a book. Heh.

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Thanks for the kind words, but one very slight clarification: I’m not at the helm at LLN–I’m Editorial Director. LLN, the whole, will be expanding in new (subscription/member) areas under the leadership of Laura Woodard of Lyrasis; I’ll continue to guide the (free) editorial portion.

@walt thanks for the clarification. all I knew was that you’re at the helm of all that cool, free content I was reading last night. which is so many kinds of awesome

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