Library Day in the Life (Round 4): Thursday

Thursday 28th January 2010 6.00 – Wake up and face the cold, at least it’s Thursday!  7.00 – Go for bus.  8.15 – Get into work 15 minutes later than usual; despite buses being on time and hardly any traffic. Odd. Get Mocha coffee, check emails, and reply to those I need to. Have phonecall [...]

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Library Day in the Life (Round 4): Wednesday

Wednesday 27th January 2010 5.45 – Get up and get ready.  7.00 – Go for bus to get to work.  8.05 – Arrive at work, set up laptop, get Mocha coffee and check emails. 8.10 – Network and Internet not working. Brilliant. Try restarting laptop to see if that shakes anything up (ah, the old [...]

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Oxford 23 Things

Originally, I was going to write up about my experiences with the ‘Oxford 23 Things’ programme on this blog; but after various tweets and following others’ example…and thus I will follow the trend and set one up on blogger specifically for posts about the tasks, experiences and whatnot regarding the 23 things. You can find [...]

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Library Day in the Life (Round 4): Tuesday

Tuesday 26th January 2010 6.00 – Wake up and get ready as per usual. 7.00 – Leave to get bus into town; especially cold today! 7.55 – Arrive at work, get laptop set up and get morning Mocha coffee. 8.00 – Check through emails: reply to those I need to, ‘file’ others and mark some [...]

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Library Day in the Life (Round 4): Monday

Monday 25th January 2010 So this is my first blog entry for the ‘library day in the life: round 4’. This is the first time I have taken part so I apologise in advance if the way I’ve set it out is random or erratic – it was easier for me to keep updating throughout [...]

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Joining the World of Web 2.0

After some consideration (mostly regarding internet access away from work…don’t ever get the broadband USB sticks…), I’ve decided I’m going to complete the 23 Things Oxford scheme which starts next week. Based on a similar version run in the US, the programme aims to expose and introduce Oxford University library staff to the various Web [...]

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Learning the library’s content

When searching for new resources to add to the collection, my supervisor still checks over what I am going to add. Just as well, as I often pick up a mass of information which we won’t link to. This is probably true for many libraries (‘should I stock this, or is it not really relevant’ [...]

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