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Tonight I was pleased to come across placement surveys on the Faculty of Information & Media Studies website (University of Western Ontario).

These surveys, taken by Library and Information Science (LIS) grads between 2003 and 2008, offer insight into things like how long it took them to find work, salary, types of jobs, length of [...]

Human Libraries are springing up all over the world. During these events, people become “living books” that can be signed out by library patrons and “read” via sharing their experiences. It is a great way to create stronger social cohesion and understanding among library community members.

I learned about this library phenomenon at the [...]

Library Day in the Life “word cloud”

Generated from my Library Day in the Life posts using: http://www.wordle.net

Library Day in the Life: Sizzler Saturday

My sixth & final installment for Library Day in the Life Round 6:

10:30am-12pm:

- Got up and got ready to head to Red Deer Lodge to help decorate for the Faculty Sizzler. (I was co-chair of the event’s planning committee and designed the poster to the right.)

12pm-3:30pm:

- Put up decorations with other [...]

Library Day in the Life: Friday

My fifth installment for Library Day in the Life Round 6:

9:30am-11am:

- Finished the reference desk schedule for February. (We use a program called WhenToWork.)

11am-11:30am:

- Met with a librarian and an instructor to discuss a session we’ll be team-teaching next week on how to create and package multimedia presentations.

11:30am-3pm:

- Wrote [...]

Library Day in the Life: Thursday

My fourth installment for Library Day in the Life Round 6:

10am-11am:

- Met with a librarian who observed my kinesiology session the day before for formal feedback.

11am-2pm:

- Worked on the reference schedule for February.

- Met with a new reference employee to talk about scheduling and do some training.

2pm-3:30pm:

- Wrote [...]

Library Day in the Life: Wednesday

My third installment for Library Day in the Life Round 6:

9am-11am:

- Attended a budget meeting with fellow supervisors. More time spent punching numbers into calculators and spreadsheets…

11am-12:30pm:

- Worked a shift at the reference desk.

12:30pm-3pm:

- Got some coffee.

- Prepared slides and handouts for a kinesiology session.

3pm-4pm:

- Led [...]

Library Day in the Life: Tuesday

My second installment for Library Day in the Life Round 6:

8:30am:

- Reviewed my notes for the business admin session I’d be teaching shortly.

9:30am-10:25am:

- Walked to work and revised my worksheet for the session before making some photocopies.

10:25am-10:30am:

- Got into the classroom and got my PowerPoint set up.

- [...]

Library Day in the Life: Monday

My first installment for Library Day in the Life Round 6:

8:00am:

- Woke up exhausted with an ongoing flu that I’d been battling all weekend.

9:02am:

- Arrived at work and trained a new reference employee. Went through administrative stuff with her–time sheets, hours, breaks, our scheduling software–and gave her the grand tour of [...]

Library Day in the Life

Round 6 begins Monday, January 24 through to Sunday, January 30

A few years ago a librarian in the US named Bobbi Newman began the Library Day in the Life project.

This initiative occurs twice a year and invites library staff to blog (or post content to Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, etc.) describing what they do [...]

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