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Posts from July 2009

library day in the life: Friday

AM Conference planning meeting. McMaster is hosting WILU 2010 (which is a library-ish conference about information literacy, active learning, &c.) in May of next year. I am on the planning team and we’re furiously making plans for an awesome conference. Create practice bibliography and gather reference questions for mentoring meeting. Mentoring meeting. Customize 2 Drupal [...]


library day in the life: Thursday

AM Endeca Development Team meeting. Discuss testing results and issues that need resolving before going live with upgrade to next version (which I’m calling 1.5, since 2.0 is already under development and will be radically different). Decide to move upgrade to next week. Quick coffee with few colleagues. Head into meeting room for the Handheld [...]


library day in the life: Wednesday

AM Review calendar. Rejoice over large block of free time in the middle of the day. Things will get done! One-hour download from programmer who is leaving us next week (these folks are lucky to get him). He has done some awesome research and programming work on a recommendation engine over the past few months. [...]


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 [...]


library day in the life: Monday

AM Back in the library after a week at the Educause Learning Technology Leadership Program (which was fab, by the way). Mostly a whole lot of e-mail, calendar maintenance, accepting meeting requests, &c. to start the day. Update the to-do list, sigh, attempt to keep spirits up. Log into problem reports database (where staff report [...]




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