Library Day in the Life: day 3
Posted on July 29, 2009
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Sat down at my laptop just after 8 AM. Today looked pretty much like this:
- Checked email for anything that needed immediate action.
- Reviewed my upcoming day and the rest of the week.
- Reviewed AIIP-L posts.
- Had a quick phone meeting with a client.
- Paid a few bills online.
- Checked Twitter and retweeted a tweet about Canadian Copyright Consultations happening now across the country.
- Did final preparation for this afternoon’s Reference Manager training session for a research group at University of British Columbia.
- Emailed myself a customized import filter for Reference Manager for session this afternoon in case my flashdrive fails me.
- Had a quick lunch before leaving the office for the rest of the day. Breakfast was later than usual today, so wasn’t really an ideal time for lunch, but had to squeeze it in somewhere.
- Drove to UBC for Reference Manager training. Thought about taking the office assistant, but decided she’d get bored in a long “down stay” while I taught. (There are several dogs who go to work in this particular UBC building and I occasionally take one of mine along for short stints, since my client loves animals.)
- Had a good training session. Smart group of researchers with interesting questions and good sense of humour.
- Met with head of research group about old project files and library materials. Then spent almost 3 hours just catching up on news. This is a client I’ve worked with since 1992 and we always have a good long “gab fest” when we get together.
Left campus at almost 7 PM. Home, dinner, quick email/Twitter/AIIP-L check, bed! Another day comes to an end. Listening to the third night of Celebration of Light fireworks competition – we live very close to English Bay where they’re held. Another night I might be out on the street watching, but with this heat and such a long day, I decided not to.
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