The academic year is beginning, and the busiest, most exhausting time of year has started for me at work. This is the time of year where I have to meet-and-greet hundreds of new students, give numerous presentations on library resources, research skills, referencing, EndNote and whatever else a new student wants to know about these days, and attend way too many meetings. While keeping up with all my usual tasks and working on projects I have been assigned. We had our annual planning half-day yesterday, and all the things I have against my name sound like gimmicks: RSS, blog, wiki, Shibboleth…
Yesterday I started work at 7:50am and didn’t finish until 7pm. This morning I actually feel hungover and like I should be sleeping until at least noon. Instead, I am going to go to work very soon, to try and finish a document I am writing to inform my colleagues about The Joys of Wiki (this is going to be hard as I don’t feel too joyful about wiki-anything at the moment!), answer sixty reference queries and go to a two-hour meeting in the afternoon.
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Two hour meetings are no fun! I had one today also 🙁 Best of luck! Godspeed!!
Thanks Kris 🙂 Two hour meetings are awful, especially in the afternoon when i am feeling lethargic and completely intelligent… (I survived though!)
Doh! I meant unintelligent!! >.<
CW are you working at the main library of the university or at one of the departmental libraries? How big is it? Just wondering..
Would be nice to see a picture of your library too..
No I am not a stalker hehe..
Hi Israd, I work in the main library of the university 🙂 I don’t think it’s a very big library, in terms of the size of the collection, but the building itself is large (6 floors). I can’t seem to find any pictures of the library, but you can take a look at our website, if you’re interested. (You might even be able to find me 😉