Welcome to my first Library Day in the Life post. My name is Kristin Andrews. I am the Research Librarian for French, Italian & Classics and the interim librarian for Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. I am based in the Collection Development Department but also provide Reference and Instruction services. I am the library liaison to the above-mentioned subject departments.
I didn’t keep a minute by minute account of my day, so it’s not quite as detailed as some of the posts I’ve seen others write.
10:15 am–arrived at office after a morning appointment. Opened AIM (used for internal communications), email, Oracle calendar & Firefox. Reviewed emails.
10:30–sent confirmation emails & requests for a short summary to librarians presenting at our August 4 All-Reference Training session. Put in IT workticket to add a program to the classroom computers so a presenter can show us ArcGIS Online.
11:00–Talked with colleague about renewal decision for institutional membership in LAMP (Latin American Microfilm Project). Determined what information was needed to make final decision.
11:30–Reviewed RSS feeds & emails. Miscellaneous tasks.
1 pm–Met with the Academic Librarianship Committee I am chairing this year. Discussed a panel we hosted on getting involved in professional associations for our staff who are in library school. Coordinated final tasks for Thursday’s lunch-time program introducing our new law librarian. Made plans to solicit librarians to serve as mentors to prospective & current library school students and early career librarians.
1:15–wow. that was a short meeting. Did some odds and ends in office. Can’t remember what I did after that.
2:30-3:30–time for a very late lunch.
3:30–Revised annual plan draft
3:45–Reviewed LAMP holdings lists and the VDX ILL request reports to get more info for decision-making. Love new ILL reports! We have been trying to get those for ages. Can now see what our departments are requesting. Highlighted requests by department using different colors so I can sort them out later.
5–Looked at list of participants for Library Day in the Life and added some to Google Reader. Started writing my post.
5:30–post done. Time to wrap up for the day and go to yoga class. More tomorrow!
