librarydayinthelife

Library Day in the Life – Monday

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

I figured that since I’ve changed jobs from the last time I did Library Day in the Life, I’d participate this time around to give people a sense of what a Head of Instructional Services does at a large urban university. After writing this up, I realize that this day was no more typical for [...]

A Working Mom’s Library Day in the Life: Thursday – awesome day

Friday, January 29th, 2010

This will be my last Day in the Life, as Reed and I got sick with RSV (and him with bronchiolitis as well) so I’m feverish, wiped out, and confined to bed. I wrote this Thursday evening before the worst of the illness had hit (and man, it hit like a ton of bricks during [...]

A working mom’s library day in the life: Wednesday

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

This morning I felt really sick to my stomach and dizzy, so after helping to get Reed dressed, Adam ended up taking him to daycare. I spent 20 minutes lying in bed after they’d left before I headed to work (arrived at 7:40). I was tied to my desk this morning since I was on-call [...]

A Working Mom’s Library Day in the Life: Tuesday

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

My day started at 6:00 am when my husband and I got Reed fed, dressed, and ready for daycare. Adam drove him to daycare today since I was nearly out of gas and didn’t want to stop with him in the car. I’ll pick him up in the afternoon. I took a quick shower myself, [...]

A Working Mom’s Library Day in the Life: Monday

Monday, January 25th, 2010

This week’s “days in the life” are very different from the ones I did back in July. In July, I was still in the midst of maternity leave and was working only half-time. I was taking care of a three-month-old child and often felt so overwhelmed by that responsibility that I was having trouble finding [...]

Why I participated in Library Day in the Life

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Sarah Cohen wonders what motivated people to participate in Library Day in the Life and who we are writing these for. I can’t speak for everyone else, but I wanted to share my own reasons for doing it (and since this is a bit long, I thought it better to post it here than to [...]

Day 3 in the life of a head of instructional initiatives

Friday, July 31st, 2009

8:00 am – Checked my email. Checked reference email accounts. Answered a few reference questions, forwarded a database error on to our Head of Digital Initiatives and a Norwich history question to our Archives. 8:30 am – Director called me into her office to let me know that she’d heard back from the office that [...]

Day 2 in the life of a head of instructional initiatives

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

With many of my colleagues on vacation and no students around, this isn’t the most exciting time to be recording my time at work. I will definitely do something similar during the Fall or Spring semester when I’m knee-deep in instruction. 8:00 am – arrived at work and checked email. Started creating a basic wire [...]

Day 1 in the life of a head of instructional initiatives

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

This is part of the Library Day in the Life meme going on this week. What an awesome idea! I cheated on this a little — I wrote this up on Thursday since I’m not working until Wednesday. Until mid-August, I’m only working 2 days per week so that Reed can wait until he’s 4 [...]