makin’ copies

amy posted this July 29th, 2011 | filed under: ilovemyjob, inspire me!, moi | Tags: libday7, librarydayinthelife | no comments »

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THURSDAY (aka: tomorrow is friday. hang in there.)

today was one of those days where i had good intentions to get some important stuff done (mostly, i have to set up my whiteboard. i am lost without my whiteboard) but got sidetracked by other things.

part of my gig is coordinating all the digitization projects here. we do a LOT of digitization and have some pretty fancy equipment. today was all about digitization – everything from buying light bulbs to thinking about metadata for rare islamic texts. so the whiteboard, she’s still blank.

morningish: email, blogs, coffee. do some non-libraryland things too (pay ze billz, email ze cousinz). at some point i get to work. i don’t quite remember when, but i do remember listening to me, mom & morgentaler very loudly on the metro during my commute. (sorry fellow commuters.)

11am: weekly team meeting to make sure we’re all doing the things we said we would be doing before other people gave us more things to be doing. my team is awesomer than your team.

noon: meet a friend from the management library (where i worked when i was but a babybrarian… 2 years ago) for lunch. at some point during the team meeting i looked down at my cardigan and realize it’s covered with, well, schmutz. well done buckland, you can’t even be trusted to dress yourself. so i drag my friend to the mall so that i can pick up something that’s, you know, clean, to wear the rest of the day. we also get lunch at the new burger place which purports to be “smart” which i guess translates to putting brie on everything. pretty yum.

afternoonish: email, phone calls, google reader, friendfeed, twitter, facebook. discover that the sparc oa meeting in march is the same week as sxswi. get bummed. decide i’d prefer to hit sxswi because i need inspiration, not moaning IR managers. we’ll see.

2-3:30pm: individual meetings with my team to make sure everyone is doing the things they said they’d be doing before i gave them more things to be doing.

3:30pm: exchange emails with some great folks about publishing, libraries, and how we need to save the world. we also discuss beer.

4pm: i start prepping lists n’such to get my whiteboard on. in going through the piles on my desk, i discover a folder of “READ ME NAO” related to digitization best practices. (i also find the receipt for a dress that i’ve been trying to return for over a month. of course now it’s too late to return it. grrrr.) so i start reading and get swallowed up by METS and RAW and OMEKA. it’s all good. i really wish i did digitization 100% of my time. i also wish i had a pony.

5 à 7: i believe in celebrating team achievements. the digitization team has had an epic year digitizing everything from old class photos, to olympic torches, to well, lots of old and crazy texts, so we go for drinks after work to pat ourselves on the back. (oh ya, and we cracked 27,000 ETDs in eScholarship@McGill.) i’ve said it before, and i’ll say it again, i work with great people.

nightish: do other things you people don’t need to know about. yell at ruebot on twitter. (i do a lot of yelling on twitter.)

2am: write this thinger.

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