Guardienne of the Tomes

How I say BOOM to this day: 1. Two surprise student consults this morning because their professors told them to come see me specifically. 2. A professor just called in an emergency status, needs some research to support a major NIH grant, thought immediately of me. Yep, I can help with that. Due Thursday? No problem. 3. Finished and submitted a complicated "revise & resubmit" research article to one of the top journals in my field. 4. Chatted with a friend about researching grants for her business idea. 5. Made comments on a group report submitted by one of the groups of students in my experiential learning social justice class. 6. Had a phone call to clear up some things about the library leadership book manuscript. 7. Rejoined the local CSA - 12 biweekly deliveries of a giant box of farm fresh veggies. Back onto the Autoimmune Protocol. 8. Submitted a poetry book manuscript to a press 9. Already located some good sources for #2 - sent 5 articles to the faculty member 1...

A Library Day in the Life. Doing this sort of post never fails to remind me of how much of my day is spent wrangling details, trying desperately not to drop too many balls, and hoping I'll land on my feet, get my staff what they need to do their jobs to the best of their ability. And manage a meal or two in between (this figure requires upkeep!). Here is a day in my librarian life as the Associate Head of Access & Delivery Services at the NCSU Libraries: 5:00am - Hit the snooze button in a decidedly disgruntled way. 5:42am - Got up (still cranky), fed dog, chopped veggies to put in with marinating pork loin in crock pot. Various morning waking-up and getting-ready stuff. (which may or may not have included a small nap between 5:58 and 6:15am). 7:00am-7:15am - Briefly go over materials for morning meetings. 7:20am-7:45am - Snarl at traffic on my way in to campus. 8:00am-9:00am - Met with Campus Employee Relations. 9:30am-10:00am - Played Catch-Up. I was pretty good about n...