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The Library Day in the Life Project is a semi-annual event coordinated by Bobbi Newman of Librarian by Day.
Twice a year librarians, library staff and library students from all
over the globe share a day (or week) in their life through blog posts,
photos, video and Twitter updates. You can learn more at the Library Day in the Life Project Wiki. #libday8
I work as a Reference Librarian at Hackley Public Library. Among my
duties are buying fiction and nonfiction (000's, 200's, 400's, 500's,
800's, and 900's) for the library; weeding the same group; Government
Documents; Adult program planning; maintaining the Library's website;
keeping up with Social Media; running the Adult Summer Reading Program;
and, as they say, other duties as assigned. My days, to say the least,
are not dull.
Here's a breakdown of how my day was spent on Friday:
8:30 am Turned on computer, talked to co-workers, returned books
9:00 am Tackled desk-filed papers, sorted stuff into to-do today and do another day, checked to-do list, organized work for the day
9:40 am checked my email, nothing pressing so I'll read it later. Posted Wednesday and Thursday day in the life, took pictures of circ area, posted upcoming events to blog, Posted LDITL to G+ and my linked in account.
10:40 am updated social media
10:50 am ref email and blog
10:55 short break
11:00 picture of main reading room, and computers, continued with ref blog
11:12 updated bookletters calendar with March to May events
11:40 Finished updated bookletters with new events, started on recurring events
12:00 pm picture of main floor, then lunch
1:00 pm Reference: Picture of main floor, looked up book location, ref email and blog, gave out tax forms, added people to the event database that we also use for addresses for the newsletter
Tel: put DVD on hold
Someone came in to get a broken picture frame, he's doing some other work so asked if I would help him match Pantene colors to our walls.
Copy machine questions, reset a patron's pin, gave out office supplies, guest pass, added emails to bookletters
2:00 pm Picture, continued with long term events
Tel: looked up church phone number
Computer sign in help, GED book
Tel: Roman Jewelry contact info
Found book on shelf for patron, found books on the eye, gave out tax forms
2:45 pm Finished bookletters calendar! Checked email, gave out guest pass, tax forms
3:00 pm Picture, then break
3:30 pm Back to email, blogs
Tel: do we have animusic (no)
Downloaded pictures
4:20 pm Uploaded pictures to our Library Day in the Life set on Flickr, read professional journal, checked best seller list against holdings, found GED book for patron, worked on this post, uploaded more pictures.
5:00 pm Library closes.
The Library Day in the Life Project is a semi-annual event coordinated by Bobbi Newman of Librarian by Day.
Twice a year librarians, library staff and library students from all
over the globe share a day (or week) in their life through blog posts,
photos, video and Twitter updates. You can learn more at the Library Day in the Life Project Wiki. #libday8
I work as a Reference Librarian at Hackley Public Library. Among my
duties are buying fiction and nonfiction (000's, 200's, 400's, 500's,
800's, and 900's) for the library; weeding the same group; Government
Documents; Adult program planning; maintaining the Library's website;
keeping up with Social Media; running the Adult Summer Reading Program;
and, as they say, other duties as assigned. My days, to say the least,
are not dull.
Here's a breakdown of how my day was spent on Thursday:
8:30 am Set up for computer class, looked at newly donated books, most were not in good enough condition to keep so they will go in our booksale that is scheduled for April. Chatted with colleagues
9:30 am Updated the calendars we keep for our events -one on our website, our google calendar, and bookletters. The google calendar also has community events. Updated a couple of the webpages. Added upcoming programs through May, and recurring events for the year on the website calendar. Did a bit on the bookletters calendar, but still have a bunch to do.
12:05 Lunch
1:00 pm Reference Shift
Tel-Tax form questions
Tel-Looking for local book appraisers, unfortunately they are all on the east side of the state
DVD lookup
Book lookup on cowboy language
Book lookup-no one in our cooperative owned it so I explained how to use MeL, the statewide catalog, and put the book on hold
Updated upcoming events for the newsletter
Put patron request on book order for March
Updated our database of addresses for the newsletter
Ran a list of the new items we received in January. We post the entire list online in an excel spreadsheet, and feature the new fiction in a Bookletters weekly newsletter
Found two books about hopping freight trains that we owned, and put another one on hold from another library
Tel: Lottery results
Tel: Question about how to access the newspaper archives from the Muskegon Area District Library's website (pretty much the same way you do it from ours)
Tel: Tax forms
Tel: Another newspaper archive question (article is not complete in the archive, sigh)
Updated web and bookletters with new items
Posted new books to social media
Sent email to staff to remind them to let me know what they'd read recently for our Staff Picks newsletter
3:05 Break!
3:25 pm Updated bookmarks with February events and printed a bunch off
3:30 pm Read Ref email
Tel: Tax forms
Looked up movie
Added an organization to the webpage we keep of area organizations
3:40 pm Read Ref Blogs
Tel: put 2 books on hold
updated social media
3:55 Read my email
Wrote down DVD purchase request for a patron
Updated Exhibits webpage
Looked up a call number, then checked the shelves when the patron couldn't find it. I couldn't either, so we requested it from another library
Law question on where to get transcripts from the Federal District Court (apparently through Pacer--patron will see about getting an account)
Put a book on hold
Tel: do we take old encyclopedias? Not for the collection, but we'll put them in the book sale
Tel: look up a book
Posted book video on blog
4:45 pm collated computer class surveys
DVD look up
5:00 pm Library closes.
The Library Day in the Life Project is a semi-annual event coordinated by Bobbi Newman of Librarian by Day.
Twice a year librarians, library staff and library students from all
over the globe share a day (or week) in their life through blog posts,
photos, video and Twitter updates. You can learn more at the Library Day in the Life Project Wiki. #libday8
I work as a Reference Librarian at Hackley Public Library. Among my
duties are buying fiction and nonfiction (000's, 200's, 400's, 500's,
800's, and 900's) for the library; weeding the same group; Government
Documents; Adult program planning; maintaining the Library's website;
keeping up with Social Media; running the Adult Summer Reading Program;
and, as they say, other duties as assigned. My days, to say the least,
are not dull.
Here's a breakdown of how my day was spent on Wednesday:
8:30 am Checked computer lab for tomorrow's class-made handouts for tomorrow's class; put events for today on the portable sign
9:45 am Got ready for reference shift--sorted through projects to take, started reference computer
10:00 am Reference Shift
Checked Ref email, checked ref blogs, updated social media sites (Facebook/twitter and g+)
Telephone call (Tel): book look up
Tel: book look up
10:15 posted Tuesday's day in the life
Tel: music label addresses
Tel: ereader class info
Tel: let patron use phone
10:45 basic computer class info; DVD question; read ref blogs and email
10:55 started on my email, updated the community calendar
Tel: etiquette question
helped disabled patron with coat and hat
gave out divorce papers
11:15 Blog reading continues-updatedout blog
Pointed out teen books
Tel: insurance companies in the area during the 1990's, referred them to local history
Tax form questions
11:30 Worked on library use stats for January
Tax form question
Tax form question
Put a book on hold for a patron
Talked to the tech person about computer issues
Explained how to download a book to a Kindle
12:15 pm Started on web use statisticcs
Tel: question about medical abbreviations-was not able to find out what they meant
Tel: question about where to take the GED in the area
Looked up books on movies and music
Gave out a guest pass
Tax forms
DVD look up
Checked shelves for a patron
1:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Wrote thank you to last night's presenter
2:20 pm Back to statistics-circulation statistics and Web stats (finished circ stats)
3:00 pm Break for Reference
Created a book list
Looked up Mein Kampf for a patron
3:30 pm Break for me
3:50 Web stats
4:30 Finished web stats; did some computer upkeep, reviewed February calendar
5:00 End of Day
The Library Day in the Life Project is a semi-annual event coordinated by Bobbi Newman of Librarian by Day.
Twice a year librarians, library staff and library students from all
over the globe share a day (or week) in their life through blog posts,
photos, video and Twitter updates. You can learn more at the Library Day in the Life Project Wiki. #libday8
I work as a Reference Librarian at Hackley Public Library. Among my
duties are buying fiction and nonfiction (000's, 200's, 400's, 500's,
800's, and 900's) for the library; weeding the same group; Government
Documents; Adult program planning; maintaining the Library's website;
keeping up with Social Media; running the Adult Summer Reading Program;
and, as they say, other duties as assigned. My days, to say the least,
are not dull.
Here's a breakdown of how my day was spent on Tuesday:
11:00 am- Arrived at work, set up the sign that goes on the front porch with the day's events, chatted with coworkers, moved from the main building to the tech services building (we have two buildings and I work in Tech Services one day a week to catalog the Government Docs).
12:00 pm-ate lunch while writing up the Library Day in the Life post for Monday, posted it to our social media outlets
12:30 pm worked with Government Docs, checked shipping lists, looked up cataloging record for a book we received a few weeks ago. It wasn't in the database, so reported it to the vendor.
12:40 pm Social media updates and checked ref desk email account
1:00 pm Worked on book order. I work on the book order on and off all month, until the end of the month when I look over the cart and decide which books I can afford to buy. I also download the final cart and keep a list of what I bought and how much I spent in an excel spreadsheet. At the end of the month I also go through the list of books that people haven't returned and reorder those through a used book seller.
3:00 pm Moved back to the Library, prepared the room for tonight's speaker which entailed setting up the projector and putting a few books out for a display.
3:30 pm Sorted through the papers on my desk-book order info, documents, programming and filed what needed to be filed. Collected what I would need for the evening reference shift
4:00 pm Dinner
5:00 pm Reference Shift- checked reference email, downloaded some stats for our database usage, answered reference questions (looked up a book, pointed out CD collection, answered IM about Medicaid and nursing homes, looked up local notaries, transferred an email to tech services), helped the speaker get set up, updated the community calendar the library hosts, looked up the phone number of one of my presenters for a collegue.
5:50 pm Checked my email; Introduced Speaker; looked up a word for a patron, gave out 2 guest passes for the computers, looked up a DVD, updated the webpage, helped someone with printing from the Internet, gave out 2 more guest passes; found the Michigan Law Dictionary for a patron
6:55 pm Checked blogs
7:15 pm Added more events to Facebook and Chamber calendars
7:40 pm Collated surveys from program attendees
7:55 pm Checked voice mail, cleaned up work area
8:00 pm Ended day
#libday8
The Library Day in the Life Project is a semi-annual event coordinated by Bobbi Newman of Librarian by Day.
Twice a year librarians, library staff and library students from all
over the globe share a day (or week) in their life through blog posts,
photos, video and Twitter updates. You can learn more at the Library Day in the Life Project Wiki. #libday8
I work as a Reference Librarian at Hackley Public Library. Among my duties are buying fiction and nonfiction (000's, 200's, 400's, 500's, 800's, and 900's) for the library; weeding the same group; Government Documents; Adult program planning; maintaining the Library's website; keeping up with Social Media; running the Adult Summer Reading Program; and, as they say, other duties as assigned. My days, to say the least, are not dull.
Here's a breakdown of how my day was spent on Monday:
8:30-9:30 am: Arrived at work and sorted through some of the gift books we've received in the last couple of weeks-sorted them according to which staff member needs to review them and checked to see if any in my area were ones we'd like to keep. Put the rest aside for our annual booksale.
9:30-10:00 am: Got ready for a shift on the Reference Desk-started the Ref. computer, gathered stuff to work on if it was quiet, chatted a bit with a couple of collegues.
10:00 - 10:30 am: Dealt with emails that had come in to the Ref. account-someone wanted to know about Ice Boxes that had been manufactured in the area during the 20's. Found some pictures and some history of the company, shared the email with the local history department thinking they might have more information. Looked up books for a book club member
10:30 -10:45 am: Read through Blog entries and updated social media (Facebook, Google+, Twitter). Answered a number of questions about taxforms.
10:45-11:45 am: Read through my own email, updated the community calendar. Ref questions about book values of older books, where to find a place to repair older books, checked to see if we had a specific DVD, explained how to download eAudiobooks.
11:45-12:15 am: Read through more blogs. Pointed out the mystery section, more tax forms, looked up the phone number of an out-of-state PBS station.
12:15 -12:30 am: Updated the Chamber of Commerce's calendar with our February events, handed out more tax forms, updated our Facebook page with our February events.
12:30-1:00 pm: Worked on book review to post on our Blog, more tax forms.
1:00 - 2:00 pm: Lunch
2:00-2:20 pm: Off the ref desk now. Finished book review and posted it to our Blog and to Facebook.
2:20-3:00 pm: Updated our New Book list on our Bookletters page, read some email, continuted with the Gift Books.
3:00-3:30 pm: Gave the afternoon Reference Librarian a break. Looked up a movie, looked up some books, told someone when our book group meets, started work on my book order.
3:30-5:00 pm: Worked on my book order.
That would be a pretty typical Monday!
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