Colleen's Library Day in the Life: January 21, 2011
A librarian day in the life as Head of Access Services at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Lupton Library. 7:20am - 7:40am Arrive at library in time to gather some materials and do some quick email checking before I open the library on the reference desk. 7:45am - 9:00am Reference desk shift. It's the Friday of the first week of classes for the semester, so it's slow. Three hole punches, staples, "how do I format my Word doc" and some Excel formulas questions. I get some more time to reply to emails from faculty. I also find that though our textlinker will tell you certain journals live in open access databases, there's no way to get to those databases that I can find - not in our A-Z list, or subject guides. I send an email to see if the only way for our users to get to the Directory of Open Access Journals and others is to serendipitously search for an article or journal title, or if I am having an early morning brainfreeze. One of the interlibra...