Youth Desk Shift : 5-8 pm

Answered
- Do you have a pencil sharpener?
     - Is it supposed to sound like that?
     - Oh, can you just do it for me?
- How many books can I check out?
- Is there a play area for kids?
- Do you have the movie "The Witches"? because the last time we were here the libarrian said that it was checked out and I've been waiting forever to see it! I love the book too! (all in one very long breath :) )
- Where are the chess pieces?
- Star Wars books, Junie B. Jones books, Narutu books and Shel Silverstein - ALLATTHESAMETIME
     - kiddo couldn't go upstairs for the poetry, so I called up to have the Ref Desk person try to grab the book, but she was on the phone so I went up myself. Got up there and she asked if I just called - yup - she'd tried calling back. Got back downstairs, and the kiddos were all like YOURPHONERANGandYOUMISSEDIT!! :)
- help with getting credit report for free
- Me: Please don't run. Kid: I'm sorry, I'm just going to go back and walk. (and he did :) )
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Eavesdropped
- First of all, I'm a girl... not a boy... (and as far as I can tell, this was the end of the conversation)
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Observed
- Remember how we thought Atlas (a Teddy Roosevelt Terrier) smelled like Fritos? Well, apparently *all* TRT's smell like Fritos... (saw a post that someone else's TRT smelled like them while sleeping)
- YS desk is not my fav because patrons can stand RIGHT behind you and look over your shoulder... makes searching harder :-/
- It's 7:35pm... my kid is on their way to bed... why aren't these kids? :)

Extra #libday post for your enjoyment

Just thought today would be worth chronicling even if unofficially for the Library Day in the Life Project since it's the first time I've acted as Circulation Supervisor at my library.

2pm - 6pm: ILL business as usual. The "circ supervisor" portion of my day will start at 6 since I will be responsible for closing the library (at 9:45pm) One highlight though - since it's Library Week, my office mates and I went and made a READ poster!

6:00 pm - headed up to the circ area to get acquainted and hear any updates from my predecessor.

6:10 pm - Still responsible for ILL requests and the Office Email account while I'm up here, so diving into that!

7:30 pm - the student working the ID check (at the front door of the library) is working a double shift, so he requested I watch the desk while he took a break
     - note to self, I should be trained on what to do at the ID Check... :-/

7:45 pm - back in the circ supervisor's office and back to ILL work.

8:30 pm - I'll probably regret this, and I really can't believe I'm saying it ... but... Could someone please request something so I have something to do? :)
     - note, probably shouldn't have posted this as a status on Facebook, I have some very *ahem* helpful    friends :)

9:30 pm - Okay gotta do some announcing and light flashing and locking up now. Have a good night!

#libday8 It's Friday, Friday!

Okay, so yesterday was pretty uneventful... but apparently busy enough I didn't realize that I wasn't posting... :-/

Today will be better!

7:30 am  - arrive at work. I get to work early because on Fridays I have "InfoDesk" shifts. Folks who work in the library can "volunteer" for InfoDesk (basically, Reference) shifts if they get supervisor approval, so usually, one of my office mates and I share a two hour shift on Fridays. I get here early to open the desk at 8:00 am and then she takes over at 9. Today, however, I'll be working the whole shift because she's got other obligations.  I love working reference though, so I don't mind! Also, if you're only here for an hour - it's hard to really get settled in.

8:00 am - InfoDesk open for business! Another library staff member came over to ask me about an ILL request he placed, so I looked it up for him (we're still responsible for ILL work while on the desks) and it looks like it's shipped. Hopefully it will arrive soon!

Questions answered today at the InfoDesk:
- Where is the lost and found?
- How do I print using a printcard?
- Where is room 230?
- I'm done using these books, where should I put them?
- Where have you been? Hibernating? (This from a regular patron who always says hi :) We only have InfoDesk shifts during the regular semesters, so I haven't been up here as much recently...)

ILL break - request for Know how: the guide to making money with Tupperware - sad part is, I think this may actually be scholarly... the patron is a History major and they found it cited in the Journal of Women's History... the book is from 1958...

More InfoDesk questions:

- I found this ebook that I want to read, but is there a physical copy?
- Where are the foreign language dictionaries? I'm looking for something very specific...
- (okay I'm paraphrasing this one... but) I can't be bothered to remember to bring my ID with me every day and I'm running out of guest passes... what should I do? Answer: Be Responsible. The rest of us have to...
- Is there a fax machine available in the library for patron use?

10:15 am - back in ILL
Just two of us today, so we'll split the day in half - taking turns on doc providers and email duties. Hopefully our student workers come in, otherwise we'll have to do some of their work too.

11:50 am - A College Library staff member called to let us know they used the nifty new book scanners to fill a request for us... of course, they couldn't save the request in the same way they usually do with the "Transaction Number" as the name, and it was not exactly a legible scan... but YAY for new technology! :)

12:00 pm - Lunch time!

12:30 pm - back at it. Still my Doc Provider/phone shift...

12:42 pm - best. request. today. "The Ethics of Sightseeing"

3:25 pm - another library on campus accidentally charged a "no loan" book out to a patron and then discharged it, putting it in transit to us. They emailed to let us know that it is still sitting on their hold shelf.

4:00 pm - Quittin' time! It's been a good week :)

#libday8 - We made it to Wednesday!

Got here at my normal time today - 8 am. The morning progressed as usual - lots of requests!

We found out there will be a change coming up in July that will affect some of our patrons - folks who have the library's "fee cards" will no longer automatically have access to ILL services. They can opt into a (more expensive) card that still allows access but we're not sure they'll all want to pay the (much) higher price tag. Ahh... budget implications...

2:13 pm - taking a late "lunch" today. I actually ate around 11:30 on a 15 minute break but of course I still get my hour long break too!

3:00 pm - Circulation Desk shift - BUSY! Missing holds and the whole nine-yards

4:00 pm - back into requests

5:00 pm - quittin' time!

#libday8 day 2

Tuesday!

8:00 am - arrive at work, load all programs

8:10 am - one of my coworkers is gone for the morning so we're responsible for the email account for the office too. Usually, we're not, so it's nice to have the extra experience!

8:15 am - and... requests!  I'm in the "regular" queue for a while...
- Lots of requests for Spanish Language materials today... many of which are available on campus!
-Someone is looking for information on Niue which is in Polynesia, so I'm sending lots of requests to the University of Hawaii!
- _Freshwater Aquariums for Dummies_? Yeah, okay - that's scholarly :)
- Lots of Preservation Department questions about their requests - they (usually) require microfilm and sometimes the lending library sends other formats...

12:00 pm - Lunch Time!! Meeting my dad today, we'll probably go to Chin's. Gotta break my dad of the habit of ONLY going to Subway... State Street is at our front door - don't limit yourself!! :)

1:00 pm - dodged a swarm of rapid grad students making a road block in the stairwell to make it back to work.

1:00 pm - back into requests. I'll be responsible for doc providers all afternoon, hopefully there aren't too many!

1:07 pm - Loving my Aloha 'Oe Pandora radio station- HAPA is on right now!

4:32 pm - wow, the afternoon went pretty quickly. Lots of requests... it happens.

5:00 pm - Quitin' time!

#libday8 Tweeters Wordle!

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4758916/Libday8_Tweeters

Welcome to #libday8 !

Good... afternoon all! (Yikes, where did the morning go?!)

Today is the start of the wonderful Library Day in the Life Project round 8! For those of you unfamiliar with the fantasticness that is this project, this week librarians from all over will track what they do in an average day or week and share with the world! This is the second time I've participated, and I love reading all the posts! I will, primarily, make blog posts here and post those links to my twitter and facebook feeds as well.



Here's a recap of my day so far to get you caught up!

8:00 am - arrived at work. Okay, well, let's be honest, it was really more like 8:03 by the time I got here. I take the bus so my "arrive" time is often a few minutes early or late... but I make up for it!

8:10 am - everything is finally up and running on my computer. I always have to open a bunch of programs (Firefox, Thunderbird, our server, and ILLiad) so it usually takes a little while

8:10 am to 9:10 am - dove in and started processing requests. Usually, I start in what we call our "regular" queue, which is basically the "newest" requests. Patrons will place InterLibrary Loan requests for items they want that our campus does not have, or for articles they'd like electronic copies of - either from our campus or other institutions. We have many other queues to watch too, and we usually rotate through them throughout the day as they all require different type of searching and some are harder then others!

9:10 am - I left the office (gasp!) for my Staff Development Committee Meeting. I've been on this committee for a few years now and it's a lot of fun! We do the programming (both work related and some personal growth type events as well) for the Library Staff which range from tech/how-to type things to staff art shows and travel brownbags.

10:15 am - returned back to the office after my meeting and went into the "Doc Provider" queue. From 10-12 and 2-3 every day, I'm responsible for this queue. These are articles and book chapters that folks have requested that we need to pay copyright on prior to giving our patron access. So, this queue involves going to publisher's websites and buying access to an article. I'm sure most patrons don't have any idea that we spend money to get their items for them - but doc providers can cost almost anything. We do have a limit - if an item is over $55 dollars, we send the patron an email asking them "Are you SURE you want this?" and if they say "yes" we buy it. If it's more then $115 - then we say "Sorry, no can do!" but - just as an example, on 'Cyber Monday' (the Monday after Thanksgiving in the US, where MANY folks make online purchases for Christmas) I did that queue all day and I spent $1143.83 of the University's money. Most people don't realize what they're really getting from their libraries! :)

During our doc provider shifts, we also "clear [the] copyright" list which moves new requests into the queues they should be in based on whether or not we owe copyright fees on them. 

12:00 pm - Lunch time! Started typing this post...

1:00 pm  - You know what my grandfather says... BACK TO WORK!! :)

2:10 pm - Doc Provider shift again... just bought a five page for $49... see what I mean? :)

3:00 pm - discussion of the likelihood that ghosts exist... of course!

4:59 pm - actually still talking about ghosts... :) Time to go home!

Library day in the life round 8!

Remember back in July when I told you every little thing I did for a week and it was awesome?! Well, it's about to happen again! #libday8 will run January 30 - February 5, 2012. I singed up today on the

wiki

And will make my posts again with the tag "libday8" on this blog. Links will also be posted on my twitter feed (@libraryfrog), and probably on Facebook too, just for good measure!

It will no doubt be a much different story this year... School is done, I now work in ILL, and ONLY in ILL (well, one shift a week at circ and info desk) but, I hope you all enjoy it nonetheless!

#libday7

I hope you all enjoyed my Library Day in the Life posts this week. This was, as I mentioned, my first time participating in the project and I really enjoyed it! It's a great way to not only learn about other library folks' lives, but also your own. I often think of my 'daily grind' as pretty mundane and unchanging, but after doing this exercise, I have to say that my job is a bit more interesting then I may have thought! Not to say it isn't important, because ALL library jobs are important - but after doing anything for awhile, it can start to seem a bit ordinary. Everyone should take some time (at least twice a year :) ) to reflect and evaluate - and realize how amazing all of our experiences are!

Thank you for sharing my journey this week! I can't wait till #libday8!

Friday: Fun day!

7:00 am - Fridays are always early days for me because I have to leave campus by 3 to catch a bus that gets be back to my car in time to make my 4-6 shift at Fitchburg. So, I’ll start by checking email - quite a few to catch up on after being out yesterday...

7:50 am - Reports! Missed those yesterday too, of course...

9:40 am - whoa, lost some time there. Let’s see - I went though all the items on the reports to make sure they were all processed correctly, responded to some questions from the Head of the Google Project about our progress on the current shipment, emailed our student employee about some items he’d handled that were on the report, pushed a cart up to be shelved, and now I’m going to go count a few of the carts that are going out next week. There, we’re caught up! :)

10:30 am - got my invites to my graduation party delivered! My friend, Sarah Dailey, made them and they are AWESOME! (here’s a link to her other site, which has more info on it)

11:00 am - Finally got over my squee :) One of the carts I counted earlier was off, so I wheeled it into the office (easier said then done...) to check each of the 262 (or 263) items to make sure they’re all processed and charged correctly.

12:19 pm - It’s like the gods know it’s #libday7 and they want you all to read interesting stuff!! I just got a call from the SCLS delivery folks who transport our Google trucks for us saying that the dock area was all torn up. No one told me that this was happening today - so this came as a big surprise. Luckily, our mail room coordinator just happened to be in my office picking up our mail - so I asked him where they should go. He pulled out his Marauder’s Map and his Invisibility Cloak (okay, not *really*) and leads me through the maze that is Memorial Library to the *back* loading dock that I didn’t even know existed! The delivery truck was then guided onto Library Mall to park (highly unorthodox, let me assure you) and we then guided the drivers back through the maze to the basement. This will be the type of thing I won’t miss when I move to ILL...

1:00 pm - 2:10 pm - Circ Desk Shift:

Highlights:

Patron came to the desk with an item that came up as “does not circulate” When

I opened the record to find out why, I saw it was “atgoogle” meaning it was my office’s

fault it wouldn’t circ! oops... :-/

Patron needed to return a book and wanted a receipt. He then asked, “is that what

it’s called? A receipt?” I told him that if he really wanted to be ‘library-fancy’ he could call it

a “discharge slip” but that “receipt” worked just fine!

2:10 pm - back in the office for short while before I leave at 3 pm. Currently checking email I received while on the desk.

3:00 pm - ducking out to go catch my bus at 3:15!

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Fitchburg shelving shift

Highlights:

Lots of complaints about the way we shelve DVDs.

Thursday, Personal Day

1:24 pm - This is the day that happens to everyone once in a while.... We had storms all night last night, and for some reason my animals (a cat and a dog) did NOT sleep though it like they usually do... which means - *I* did not sleep through it like I usually do... So, I decided - at 5:30 am, when I was STILL awake - to take the day off and try to fix that issue...

So, today - you get to hear about my Personal Day :) I slept in (duh) and then got up around 10 and went to work out. After returning home and getting ready, I met my fiance (who also didn’t get much sleep, but the stock market doesn’t allow for personal days...) for lunch near his office. Now, I’m sitting at home, working on homework and getting some stuff done around the house.

3:15 pm - 6:30 pm - Fieldwork time! Assisting my supervisor with a weeding project at one of the branch libraries, we also talked with the branch librarians about the possibility of moving the Pop Culture collection to a more visible location. This collection has a lot of “Teen Plus” type material that tends not to circulate - mostly because no one knows it’s there!

Wednesday!

8:00 am - Got to work. I got to “sleep in” today... Started checking email, talked to one coworker about her progress discharging and filling the six carts we’re responsible for at the State Historical Society. We rotate through who goes over there each month so as not to overload one person. These carts will go out next Friday, so she’s got plenty of time to work on them. Spoke with my other coworker about his responsibilities at the Middleton Shelving Facility. He’s headed over there right now to count the two carts I filled there last week, and to take care of some other issues that have come up.

8:30 am - our student employee arrives. He was out yesterday, so I wanted to touch base on an item he’d had a question about: the item’s record wasn’t linked to the barcode. Easy fix! Also got the good news from him that he will be able to stay on here in the Fall!

8:48 am - printed out my daily reports, processed the exceptions

9:18 am - took a short break to fill out the form to transfer the two credits I earned on my Librarian’s Tour of Germany into my program at SOIS.

9:27 am - should probably finish cleaning off my desk at some point... left it with piles of stuff everywhere! Even if I’m only moving down the hall to ILL, I’m still MOVING! :)

9:58 am - my desk area is so... impersonal!

10:10 am - Went to move over the 12 carts that will be picked up from Memorial tomorrow and found one that was only half packed! Also grabbed some returns to discharge and process.

11:07 am - took a look at the first post-Budget repair bill-paycheck... this one is actually higher then usual, because it’s the second paycheck of the month, so no health insurance taken out. Next check will be the telling one...

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Circ Desk Shift

Highlights:

Patron needed to get something from our Locked Case... but no one had a key!

Usually, supervisors have keys for the case, but one is in a meeting and the other

is at lunch. Finally we tracked down our security guy and he got the key from the

key case. As the patron was waiting, he told me “This was supposed to be [his]

easy errand for the day” :(!

Can’t believe it! ANOTHER person needs a key we don’t have!

1:00 pm - Back in Google office, back to discharging

3:00 pm - Yep, you guessed it... still discharging

4:00 pm - headed home for dinner (leftovers) and some downtime!

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm - Working at Fitchburg Public Library

Highlights:

It is clear there are some differences in opinion in the meaning of the phrase “Items are in call number order, and ready to shelve”... :-/

Time for Tuesday!

7:00 am - Another early morning! That’s the only problem with fieldwork when you work a full time job - you STILL have to get in your 40 hours!

7:00 am - 7:40 am - checking email, responding to a few pertaining to the Librarian’s Trip to Germany Recap Program I am planning for the Staff Development Committee. Made a spreadsheet to keep track of people’s interest and availability.

7:45 am - Ran my reports, quite a lot to check into today... :-/ And, no, coworker - I can’t just take your word for it that you fixed all these yourself yesterday...

8:17 am - break from checking the items on the report to answer a question from someone in cataloging about the status of an item that’s “atgoogle”

8:18 am - back to the list!... It’s cold in my office today. Who am I kidding? I’m always cold...

9:00 am - checking a whole series for my coworker - it was flagged, but not very consistently. We usually trust the flags, but when a series looks suspicious - it’s easier to check the report Google provides then to process it incorrectly...

10:00 am - working on the document for my replacement

10:31 am - going on a cart round up so we can get more returns discharged!

11:00 am - If possible, the tzatziki is better today then it was last night! Today, it’s served with honey-wheat pita bread and some kalamata olives for good measure :)

11:10 am - back to discharging that cart. This was came back from Google a bit... disheveled. It will be good to know that everything is there when I’m done discharging and processing it. This happens periodically, and when it does, I always document it with photos that I send to Google. They will then go talk to the operator who processed it in their scan center. I sometimes feel badly, because I know I’m getting some poor minimum wage scanner in trouble, but at the same time - these materials need to be treated with care!

11:14 am - Took a moment to sign up for NaNoWriMo... this will be my first time participating... I don’t have high hopes for winning, but I’m looking forward to the challenge!

11:50 am - Just got news that the incoming SLIS student I hired for the fall won’t be able to accept the job here in our office. I will start by offering the hours to our current student employee, and I hope he’s able to accept them! It would be so much easier not to have to rehire and retrain someone...

12:20 pm - Not exactly work related, but I just got an email that our “guest book” (an etched metal signature mat) for our wedding was delivered! So looking forward to playing with the diamond-tipped pen you get to use to sign it! Okay, back to work!

1:09 pm - Still discharging... that’s what happens when you send 10,000 books to Google... 10,000 books come back! :)

2:11 pm - Trying to convince my coworker that... never mind, it’s a losing battle... :)

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Circulation Desk shift
    Highlights:
       

    Someone who usually doesn’t remember my name, did today! This is twice in a row! Separated by at LEAST a month of not seeing them! This is very exciting :)

    Slow day on the desk...  

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm - Working at Fitchburg Public Library. I shelved a cart in Adult Non-Fiction    and then another cart of Children’s materials.

Monday, Monday!

7:00 am - Got to work, logged on to my fieldwork timesheet to quickly log my hours from Saturday’s booksale at the Central Branch. Started checking emails, one of which contained information about Maureen Grant’s Memorial. Dealt with a question from last week pertaining to a shipment of materials sent to the scanning facility in California for destructive scanning.

7:15 am - Opened our Circulation and Cataloging modules (we use Voyager here at UW-Madison) and ran reports of circulation statistics, exceptions, item related issues etc that pertain to our project. Next I go through each item listed on the report and make sure it was processed according to our standards. - Darn, the program won’t let me in yet! Only problem with getting to work this early!

7:20 am - co-worker asked me to check a report that Google provides for information on a book that was flagged. The flag was blank, so he wasn’t sure how to process it. It was a duplicate book, meaning that another institution had already sent the book to be digitized. We run into this quite a bit, since each institution is working off the same picklist.

7:25 am - pushed a cart up to the stacks to be shelved.

7:35 am - got agenda emailed to me for the Staff Development Committee meeting this morning - looks like it will be a busy meeting!

7:40 am - trying to print my reports again. Success! On to processing...

8:00 am - discussing my upcoming transition to ILL with my coworker, while discharging and processing a cart of items returned from Google. Pandora is my friend today - got my “Rock Out” channel on right now! :) I’ll be leaving this office in three weeks - and after having been here for over 2.5 years - the transition will be... interesting.

8:45 am - done processing cart, and routing a few damaged items to our Preservation Department and adding “unrepairable” note to a few more items.

9:07 am - Question: why is the building manager always out for the day when things need his attention? HUGE cockroach in our hallway... guess what - no one has any Raid on hand... Maybe it will drown in all the red tape around here... Back to cutting pages...

9:10 am - Heading up to my Staff Development Committee Meeting!
10:45 am - back from Staff Development Committee meeting. We talked about a lot of upcoming programs and plans for future as well. This is a fun committee to be a part of; we get to provide both educational and interesting/fun programs for all library staff on campus.
10:50 am - quick lunch break! Early, I know... but that’s what happens when you eat breakfast at 6 am!

11:00 am - finishing up that page cutting and other repair work on books that will be sent back to Google. When we resend items, we put notes on them to make sure they’re processed properly upon return. These, I’ll give to my coworker because they’re from the collection from which he’s currently pulling.

11:30 am - started a document to leave for my replacement detailing some of the things they’ll need to know moving forward.

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm - on the circulation desk
Highlights:

A friend of mine stopped by and said she’d be doing #libday7 too! Excited to see what she posts! She also blogs (very well) about her experiences in Library School here.

Sent an email out to all the local folks who went on the Librarian’s Tour Of Germany back in May to see if anyone is interested in presenting our experiences for a Staff Development Program this Fall. (See, I told you it was a fun committee!)

Catching up on my library-related feeds on my Google Reader - great way to keep up on current trends, articles, etc... and maybe a few cooking blogs too :)

Another library on campus called to have a hold for a patron routed to their library. The patron decided they wanted to pick the item up at a different location. Luckily it was a book owned by this campus so it was an easy switch!

Had to hand-write carrel receipts for about a dozen items... patron didn’t know that items in his carrel needed receipts!

Carrel key that the patron has had for “a million years” returned :)

Referred patron to Circ Office to speak to someone in ILL about a book that was supposedly being held past it’s hold expiration date... through today... but wasn’t on the shelf for her. I’ll be dealing with those myself in a few weeks...

Spoke with another library staff member about my fieldwork experience and my last class for my MLIS

1:40 pm - back in the office for a little bit before I head off to fieldwork.
2:00 pm - left Memorial library to catch a bus back to my car so I can get to the Video Game Tournament at the Meadowridge Branch of the Madison Public Library by 3 pm.

2:45 pm - 5:30 pm - Video Game Tournament for Fieldwork. We had 11 players tonight, so we did a double elimination tournament. The three top players from each branch library (this was the last qualifying round) will compete in the championship on August 3rd.

5:30 pm - whew! End of the day! Headed home for souvlaki and homemade tzatziki!

Library Day in the Life 2011! Introductions...

Hi! My name is Erin and this is my first year participating in Library Day in the Life. I am currently the Operations Manager for the Google Book Project on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus. As a project, we send over 10,000 books per month to Google to be digitized for eventual inclusion in Google Book Search. My two co-workers and I are responsible for filling carts at 3 of the 4 libraries on our campus that send to Google and other staff fill from the one other library.

I also work about 10 hours a week as a shelver at the Fitchburg Public Library which is near Madison.

In addition, I’m also completing my MLIS degree this summer (will be done August 20th!!) and for that, I’m taking one class and doing a fieldwork. This week, I have to do things for each of these - so you’ll get to hear about all of it!

Stay tuned!

Library Day in the Life: Get Ready for Round 7!

This is what I'll be up to next week! :)

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Library Day in the Life: Get Ready for Round 7!: "
Library Day in the Life, a project coordinated by Bobbi Newman (of Librarian by Day), is gearing up for Round 7!





Who: Librarians and informational professionals of all stripes


What: Share a day (or week) of their work


When: July 25th through July 31


Where: Blogs, photos, videos, Twitter


Why: Well, why not? This is an excellent opportunity to take a peek into the realities of librarianship. If you’re a library student unsure about a specialty, this is a great tool to explore some of the fields you are thinking about. Already know what you want to specialize in? See what a typical day in your profession will look like. Even better, this can connect you to someone who works in your field and is open to sharing and communicating about their experience. Taking a peek at the responsibilities of people outside of your specialization is also a great way to have a broader perspective on the information ecosystem (and contribute to Big Tent Librarianship/Library School!). For a library student’s take on Library Day in the Life, check out this post from editor Lauren Dodd.


How to participate: As one of my patrons likes to say, easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy! If you want to add your voice, just head on over here, and follow the directions to sign up and add your blog, Tumblr, or Twitter account to the roster. While you’re there, check out the archives of past Library Day in the Life events, and start exploring early. Follow along the day of by searching the tag librarydayinthelife, or on Twitter using #libday7. You can also see what’s going on here and here.


I’m excited by the range of librarians already signed up, and I’m going to be following closely an outreach librarian, which is one of the new public library careers I’m most interested in, and two public library directors. Now that I’ve got my foot in the library door, it’s time to plan for my long-term goal!

Library Day in the Life

I will be participating in the Library Day in the Life Project! I'm excited! I've followed the activity of this project for awhile and I'm glad to be a part of it! I'll be posting here, of course, with links to Twitter via LinkedIn. This session runs from July 25th to July 31st. Should be fun! Stay tuned!