Library Day in the Life 5
Today was round 5 of Library Day in the Life. I took part in Round 4 back in January. Today was a more typical day I think.
Started with a few technical problems with our public access PCs which luckily were very easy to solve. There also seemed to be more requests to unblock websites than usual. Sometimes our provider seems to make changes which results in a flood of requests as sites that were once OK to view get blocked for no reason.
Uploaded photos from our Twilight evening to Flickr.
The rest of the morning was spent catching up on emails. As I’d been away from my desk a lot in the last couple of weeks, they’d built up a bit. Arranged a couple of meetings too.
After lunch. I updated the library website with some events coming up during the summer. Took three times longer than it should due to the website CMS which regularly freezes for no reason.
Our library is a PATLIB and due to various staff retiring recently it’s been added to my list of things to do, so most calls re: Intellectual Property get put through to me. Luckily today’s was a fairly simple Trade Mark enquiry. I still panic slightly when a call comes in as I still feel like I’m learning.
The library Twitter and Facebook are updated throughout the day whenever I see something interesting.
The rest of the afternoon was spent reading and making notes on a project which will be looking at how we handle enquiries in the library.
